Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Micky on October 14, 2009, 06:06:26 PM
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Now i am getting worried...The other day i put the dog in the car and my husband who was coming with us stood in the rd to make sure it was clear before i backed out..Then i just drove off and it was not until i was a few hundred yards away that i realised i had forgotten him.. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw him standing there with his mouth open in total disbelief...I must admit i did giggle but it was also a bit of a worry..Tonight i did something else that i had not realised i had done until afterwards.. I dished up our evening meal and it was not until i washing up that i had noticed that i had used a side plate and a dinner plate instead of two same size dinner plates..I actually ended up in tears because i seem to be doing really daft and thoughtless things.. Is this normal for us peri/meno ladies or is it just me losing it... :'(
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Hi Micky,
It does seem to be a symptom of meno, and i was like you when these things started to happen, i did get a bit worried about it, and kept thinking `im losing my mind, whats going on`, but when i joined this site and saw a lot of posts on this subject, i realized it wasnt just me, and i started to relax a bit.
I will give you an example of one of my `moments`.... I had mum and dad down for dinner and i did the whole works, when i dished everything out we all sat down to eat, we were chatting but my dad was a bit quiet (which isnt like him) i asked if he was alright and he said `yes, but i was just wondering why you havent given me any sprouts roast potatoes or any chicken` i just couldnt believe i had done that and i was a bit upset at the time, but we all had a laugh about it later on. ;D Tilly. x
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Hi micky,
where do I start???
wondering why the tea cosy wouldn't go over the teapot...lifted it back up & found the pint of milk under there, so where was the teapot..yes, of course..in the fridge ;D
putting a new pack of teabags in the teapot instead of in the tea tin, didn't notice until I went to pour the boiling water into the teapot ;D
driving to town & walking half way home before I remembered I'd driven in ;D
making an 'all in one' cake for the first time & turning round to see the sugar in the scale pan...cake was in the oven!
starting the ironing upstairs, popping down to check the washing on the line & then thinking 'oh hoovering' did that & several other jobs then went upstairs again to a very warm room several hours later (amazing how warm a room gets when you have left the iron on) plus I still had to finish the ironing :(
I could go on & on & on but they might lock me up ;D ;D
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Hi Ladies :)..I know how you all feel...I actually tried to phone someone using the t.v remote ;D...Laughed afterwards but worrying......xxx
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Totally sympathise ladies! :)
Worst brain-freeze I've had lately is to phone my hairdresser and ask for an appointment for a 'blow job' next Friday! ::)
Good job I've known him 25 years LOL
xx
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I stood in front of my front door for ages the other day wondering why it wouldn't open - I was pointing my carkeys at it and pressing the button!!
Taz x
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What about putting the washing in the dishwasher?
As for the plates well done less washing
Dont worry and everyone else MEN do the same
My husband calls it his senor moments hehehe
Suzi Q :D
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I regularly try to open the car door without unlocking it first! ::)
Orange juice in my tea! ;D
Chrissy, I regularly try to make phone calls on my tv remote.
I think one of the main reasons why we do these silly things is because we are all probably trying to do too many things at once and if you ladies are anything like me, your mind is usually 2 or 3 steps ahead of what you are actually doing, thinking about what you are going to do next. There is no wonder we get confused. :lol:
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THis afternoon at work I put all the dry clothes in the dryer and all the wet ones back in the basket
It was only when i got down to the babies room and started to fold I realised hehehehe
Dont ya just luv us meno ladies
Suzi Q
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Thank you ladies thank god its not just me.. You did make me chuckle with all the meno/senior moments you have experienced.. ;D Just wondering what daft thing i am going to do next..
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My sister went to work in odd shoes. They weren't even the same colour.
I've not got that bad yet ;D
Catweazle x
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i used to have a dark green & a dark brown pair of shoes in the same style & I used to have to look when I got to the front door to check that I had a matching pair on because they looked the same in the dark hallway, don't think I ever wore them odd but I can't be sure ;D
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Hubby went to work in one black sock and one blue the other day! ;D
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my husband has some m&s socks with the days of the week on them, god help me if he puts the wrong ones on one day ;D
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Join The Club!
It's an age issue, hubby does silly things too. I note from my records that it's a year since I began charting the silly things I do daily because it was worrying me a lot at the time .........
Trying to phone a friend on the remote happens here too and the times I point the phone at the TV to change channels ::)
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ha ha just what i needed a good laugh. at the dr on monday the receptionist ask me my address a blank look on my face, a funny look from the girl standing next to me and i said, well i must live somewhere and laughed she then suggested the road and i said yes thats it, i laughed and said its the hormones ha ha
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i think that being able to laugh at ourselves is one of the biggest helps :)
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Yep - it's an age thing ::) frustrating at the time but good for a giggle later on ???
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On my way through Reception at work today (no-one on Reception as Receptionist gone to lunch) I saw a gentleman I didn't recognise putting on one of our visitors coats (Hygiene regs-have to wear coat, hat, safety shoes, ear protection when going into factory). I asked him if he was OK and being attended to - he said Yes but could I find him a disposable hat. I looked behind Receptionists desk but the box was empty so I said I would pop upstairs and fetch one. I grabbed a handful of hats to fill up the box and then remembered he might need ear plugs if he hadn't already got some so I grabbed some of those too. I raced back downstairs, handed him a hat and then holding out the earplugs, I said "Do you have any ears, because you'll need these" He looked at me as if I was an imbecile and I felt such a fool! I rushed back upstairs to my office in shame and then found I was still clutching all the hats I had taken to refill the box in Reception! :-[
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;D ... made his brain tick over probably ....... better than telling him to 'stick these in as well' ???
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I'm laughing quietly as these and thinking, yup, that rings bells. I've put orange juice in my tea before today, and poured milk into the teapot rather than hot water - here's another story for you. I was staying with a cousin, out for the day in my car but on the way home stopped for some shopping. She got in touch a couple of days later to ask had I seen her mobile phone ... Nope, checked in car, under seats & in pockets etc. Nowhere to be seen. She found it in the Freezer with the meat she had put away. Now there's meno! and by the way, she had tried ringing herself but it was turned off (or maybe just frozen solid!!!). Apparently it thawed out ok and still worked.
Ring a ding ding!
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;D ;D
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::) I put lots of tea-bags into the caddy before pouring boiling water over the lot last week >:( ..... all for one cuppa ::)
It's my reading glasses that I spend most time looking for ............
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It's not just meno ladies! My youngest son left the house yesterday - a rare event ;D - and after he had closed the front door he looked up and saw my bedroom window open. Fearing a telling off from me - or a bollocking as he called it - he went back in, up the stairs, closed the window and then went off to catch the bus. Hours later he returned and found...... his doorkey still in the lock!! ;D ;D
Taz x
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On my way through Reception at work today (no-one on Reception as Receptionist gone to lunch) I saw a gentleman I didn't recognise putting on one of our visitors coats (Hygiene regs-have to wear coat, hat, safety shoes, ear protection when going into factory). I asked him if he was OK and being attended to - he said Yes but could I find him a disposable hat. I looked behind Receptionists desk but the box was empty so I said I would pop upstairs and fetch one. I grabbed a handful of hats to fill up the box and then remembered he might need ear plugs if he hadn't already got some so I grabbed some of those too. I raced back downstairs, handed him a hat and then holding out the earplugs, I said "Do you have any ears, because you'll need these" He looked at me as if I was an imbecile and I felt such a fool! I rushed back upstairs to my office in shame and then found I was still clutching all the hats I had taken to refill the box in Reception! :-[
Ive just sat here laughing my head off with tears :have you got any ears" hehehehehe love it
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I'm loving this cause it makes me feel like l am not the only one!! I try to put the kettle in the fridge, milk on the kettle base. I try to open the front door all the time with the key fob to the car. Couldn't understand why my car kept clicking locked. ::)
Other day l had to phone the lab where l work, and said hi this is me, as l couldn't remember my name!!! ::) :o Lucky for me the girl who answers the phone knows my voice! Then someone phoned my work and said hi is this Trish and l said, um, oh yeah! I seriously couldn't remember my name! Can't remember what those things are that you wear on your feet........shoes!!! Told my boss something and then repeated it again about 5 mins later cause l didn't know l told him earlier!
Why is it we remember those things but can't put a sentence together? lol
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Thanks for this thread, it makes me feel so much better. Some lovely stories there!
I once watched my step mother take a joint of meat out of the oven to baste it and then try to put in the fridge. We still laugh about that.
My main things are standing in rooms wondering why I'm there and losing my glasses, only to find that I'm wearing them.
And banging my head on things. If I had a pound for every time I've bent down and then stood up and cracked my head on something, well, I'd be a rich woman now.
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We are funny but we are women so we cope and find the funny side
Reading all the posts Im saying thats me thats me too
I hope this week no one puts the milk in the washer or the cat in the freezer OH LUCYYY where are you?????
Suzi Q :cuss:
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Totally sympathise ladies! :)
Worst brain-freeze I've had lately is to phone my hairdresser and ask for an appointment for a 'blow job' next Friday! ::)
Good job I've known him 25 years LOL
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/quote] :drunklaf: That is SO funny, i almost wet myself laughing!!!!!
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at least it was 'almost' ;)
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This thread has left me PMSL... :drunklaf: :drunklaf:
Whatever else we lose, we must hang on to our sense of humour..xx
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I havne't done anything stupid today .......... yet ......... ???
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Thanks everyonr for making me laugh. I get a lot of these moments. My worse one so far was leaving my key in thr front door on the outside all night!!!!!!!!!
Now that worrys me. I never even locked my front door which is scary.
LOL
Ina xxx
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Well I made up for it today - twice >:( at 10.15 a.m. I bought 2 packets of frozen fish fingers in the local shop; at 3.15 p.m. I saw an advert for, you guessed, fish fingers ........... of course my 2 packets were still in the shopping bag, soggy .......... so chooks will get fish fingers for supper this week :-\
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Lost my reading glasses yesterday ........ Hubby found them in the pantry :P
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Newly wed at work showing wedding album today. She has teenage twin sons. Looking at picture of group of lads in kilts and asked her which ones are the twins. Every one just looked at me and laughed - didn't get it myself til someone kindly pointed out they were identical!!!!! (Ooops!) :stupid:
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Even identical twins can be 'different' ..... we had 2 sets in school and I could tell them apart easily ......
I said a silly thing tonight and I do hope our neighbour didn't hear, I babysat his daughter this evening who has a 'throat', when he collected her I reassured him that she had taken her penicillin and that she had enjoyed the whiskey, the latter being a joke; as he walked away then I added 'that will put hairs on her chest' well he has alopaecia :-\ ....... it's a family saying, well that's where it should have remained :D
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Don't worry CLKD, I am very good at putting my foot in my mouth ;D
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Was trying to tell himself something this morning and well, l was telling 8 stories in one! ::)
Started off by telling him about how boring the class was last night and how everyone was upset but it became a discombulated mess when it included a classmate last night whose name was put into another class and she couldn't get her library card because of it, me talking to the head of the dept, to our boring class again , how the teacher is sooooo boring, to how the dog was crazy this morning, to me walking down the stairs last night at break with another classmate, to having a chat with another classmate and then talking to first classmate till 10:30pm in the car park! And the weird thing is, it all made perfect sense to me when l was telling it! ::)
He just looked at me and said "What?"
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My friend and I who are both menopausal went on holiday to Turkey about a month ago, I had treated myself to a set of acrylic toe nails with french polish, my friend had the nerve to ask me if my TOES were real, of course they were how would I get around, compltely daft, the other thing we also seem to do is start a conversation and it all comes out like gobbledy gook, it makes no sense at all, I did thinkat one point I was losing the plot.
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Yesterday I was making myself a cup of tea but found the milk had gone off. Instead of pouring the milk down the sink I emptied it into the kitchen bin.
OH was having a lie in, so as I left for work 10 minutes later I shouted "bye - and can you empty the kitchen bin please".
I think this probably makes me evil as well as bonkers.
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:rofl: and did he; empty the bin?
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Yep, he emptied the horrible stinky milk bin. I think he's just about forgiven me, but I won't be pushing my luck for a while ;)
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He'll get over it ;) .........
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I have proof that it is not the meno that is responsible for us doing stupid things but probably age!
On Friday my husband bought a Euro Millions Lottery ticket and dropped it into the central storage box in his car. Less than ten minutes later he scooped up all the "rubbish" out of the central unit and put it in his huge waste bin outside our offices. The problem was - he didn't actually remember that he had done this until yesterday morning. He resolved that he would have to go back into the offices (a round trip of about 35 miles) to get the ticket out of the bin. This is the sort of bin that our local rough sleepers (tramps but not sure that is policitically correct nowadays) sleep in - not always a nice place to delve into!
In the utility room we have a microwave which a friend was getting rid of and we thought would be great to replace the one at work - stop the staff from grumbling about never having enough space to microwave their Iceland Specials. He had the great idea that, as the boot of the car was empty, then he could take it into the office when he went to retrieve the ticket. The microwave was duly put in the boot of the car, he went off to do battle with the bin and all was well. He phoned me, he had found the ticket... he didn't have one number but at least the bin didn't have any rough sleepers or rats in it! Anyway, sometime later he came home and decided that as it was a dry night he would load up his golf clubs ready for the morning. Can you guess what he found in the boot? Yep, the microwave!! I had to laugh. The microwave is now back in the utility room :beat:
Taz x
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GB£M45 - won by 2 people in the UK - each!
I made a complete hash of making cuppas for friends last evening, like I'd never lifted a tea-bag before :-[
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Bobbles came home tonight with a big grin I said whats up chuck
He said you will never guess what Mick did today What says I
He the told me that Mick all 56 years of age brought his buttie box in to the kitchen at work
Opened the fridge put them in then GOT HIS CAR CLIKER AND CLICKED THE FRIDGE DOOR!!!!!
They were all watching but said nothing
Boobles rang him a while later and said Mick can you bring your clicker and open the fridge we are gasping here
Mick of course told my Bobbles to whooofff offf so see its men too
Suzi Q :-X
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Men dont you just love them hehehehe
Suzi Q :bunny:
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:lol: I have often tried to open our front door with the car remote and yesterday tried to lock the car when I was on the way to the PO and it wouldn't click; so I locked it manually having a good moan under my breath and saw that the spare key was in the dashboard :bang: :bang: :bang: I don't even remember taking both keys off the hook in the house ::)
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Went into work today and one of the drivers was standing there and l tried to open the office door with the car remote! ::)
Ok, one must remember not to do things like this in front of others, especially dopey men who, well, keep on and on about it!!! He had to tell everyone!! I wanted to punch him! ::)
I do know about computers, l know l know how to change the resolution on the computer, but when l went to change the resolution on our work computer, could l remember HOW to do it?? >:( No, the boss had to go and get the guy from the back and do it!! At least l was aware enough to say "Oh l already did that and the stupid thing wouldn't let me!"
Was making Pumpkin Cake last night and was going to put chocolate chips in it and didn't remember to put them in till the blooming thing was almost done! ::)
You know, l don't remember signing up for this part of the process! I might have done but, nah l don't think l would have! ;) :D
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<hands over plate for pumpkin cake> ........ what stopped you, thumping him I mean ;D
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Well i've just done THE most stupid thing!
I've sat and typed a new thread, its taken me ages, I previewed it and went back to correct spelling mistakes and pressed the wrong key! Its all bl***y disappeared! Now I can't be a***d to do it again! >:(
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my favourite is to do a reply & then get timed out :cuss: :bang:
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Oh HnB that really annoys me :cuss:
I thumped myself in the lip this morning by leaning backwards to collect the seat belt, caught my thumb in my lip >:(
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Ouch! hope it's not sore :)
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This morning i tried to put my pen in the phone cradle instead of the phone ::)
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:lol:
It brought tears to my eyes at first but it's OK not even a bruise to show for it >:(
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<hands over plate for pumpkin cake> ........ what stopped you, thumping him I mean ;D
Come on over and get some!! Plenty left! Was a big hit at work too! :)
Oh with this guy l have a look to tell him that he's just gone too far! ::) He over does it a lot! lol
Oh and one must not drive in a fog when the head seems like it's always in a fog!! ;D Made for some interesting driving!! lol
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Well yesterday: was searching for my reading glasses of which I currently have 2 pairs: eventually realised that one pair was on my nose and I was looking through them, the 2nd pair was in my left hand as I wandered round the house getting rattier and rattier ::)
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I love this thread because it makes me feel normal - yesterday I was actually crying with frustration because I couldn't find my car keys and I was 5 minutes, then 10 minutes late leaving for work. I was carrying 5 or 6 different items at the time, but imagine how I felt when I realised it was hooked over my little finger all the time. Honestly...
nightingale xx
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Yep nightingale, done that one too .......... last week I carried 2 car keys around and couldn't understand why it wouldn't automatically lock when I got out: didn't realise I had one set in the dash-board the other in my hand ::)
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Well yesterday: was searching for my reading glasses of which I currently have 2 pairs: eventually realised that one pair was on my nose and I was looking through them, the 2nd pair was in my left hand as I wandered round the house getting rattier and rattier ::)
LOVE IT HE HE HE
SUZI Q :-*
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must admit I've got worse these last few years - previously only had this trouble when pregnant lol
main thing I do is think of something to do or say in my head then think I've actually done or said it - but really I only thought about doing it.
my hubby and kids are used to it by now - but - my 24 yr old daughter and hubby can be just as bad. Up to now they've always said it's me being scatty, but the other day my son heard my daughter say something silly without realising it. I questioned her comment and she denied saying it - until my son said 'yeah you did say it' ha ha - so sometimes they make me scatty
obviously I can't remember what was said - d'oh lol
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Yep - doing stupid things here too. Actually came into the flat and out again 3 times yesterday and STILL with no car keys! Had to go and check that I'd fed my rabbits too as I had no recollection of it either. They ignored me & were looking satisfied so I took that as a 'yes'.
I'm in my first post at work since qualifying, so trying to appear 'professional' - fortunately they're an understanding bunch and don't judge me when I've lost my mug for the umteenth time....and it turns up in a room I can't remember going to!
I always feel so much better when I see on here that I'm not the only one :)
:thankyou:
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LOL, I too have done these things. Try to change the channel with the phone, or phone somebody with the remote. Look for me keys and find them in my hand. Found my glasses on my nose after looking for them, and accusing my hubby of using them and putting them somewhere else. LOL, He didn't even notice they were on my face, so it's not just us. I once took out the dog's chewing bones from the freezer, and the frying pan at the same time, I guess was going to cook them for dinner.
I can't remember the last time I was able to go out the door only only once. I always forget something, and have to come back. Then I forget what I was coming back in for, and have to stand there feeling silly, trying to remember.
How about being so tired, you fall asleep on the toilet, in the basement? That was a bad one though because when I woke up, I didn't realize my legs were still asleep, and when I tried to stand up, my legs went out from under me, and I fell, and smashed my face on the concrete floor. It hurt like a S.O.B., and the results were 2 good shiners.
The other day, I found my medicine in the freezer. I have no idea, or memory, of how it got from the cupboard to the freezer though. I could go on and on with the silly things I've done. Just laugh them off. They can be frustrating, but it happens to the best of people.
Take care.
Platte
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:)hey I do live in the real world wouldn't be enough space to list the stupid things I have done laterly
I should take shares in post it notes they all over the place to remind me
also put a white board in the porch which I write things on I have to do so as i go out and come in I can remind myself GUESS what I forget to read it LOL
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LOL, I write things down, like Dr. appointments on the calender and put them on the wrong day, or time, or just plain forget I wrote it down. Yesterday, I was an hour and twenty minutes early for an appt. ??? LOL I make grocery lists, and then forget the list, and the cloth bags I use to pack the groceries.
The worst thing I ever forgot was to call my daughter on her b-day. I did remember, but she was at work, so I decided I'd call later. Then I thought she'd be out for dinner, so I'd call her later. Then, I sat down to watch a movie, and I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was after midnight. At 2:00 a.m., I suddenly remembered her b-day again. I called her anyway because it was a Saturday night/morning, and she just laughed. I felt horrible :(. That happened a few x's, and the same scenario with a couple of other family members.
Last July, I forgot my sister's b-day, and I called her the next day. When I said to her, didn't it seem strange to her that I hadn't called, since she was 58 yrs. old, and I had never ever forgotten before, she just laughed and said she had several calls, plus phone messages, and she couldn't remember if I had called or not!! LOL She too has the same things happening to her, and did we ever have a good laugh over that one!! ;D
Take care, and be safe!
Platte
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Found two scrunched up carrier bags in the fridge tonight. Must have put them there last night instead of in the recycling bag- why did nobody point it out?????
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Doesn't anyone use the 'reminders' on their mobile phone? It's failsafe, especially if you set each reminder with an alarm - and as long as you keep it charged - AND DON'T LOSE OR MISPLACE IT! I couldn't get by without it.
nightingale xx
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Yep Nightingale I couldn't get by without mine. Don't know if it would work for the carrier bag incident though! :rofl:
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Where's my mobile phone? or the glasses to see where I've put it!
Did the 2 pairs of glasses trick again last night >:( .. also when doing a cross-word puzzle I often fill in the wrong boxes with the clues .... then wonder why the other answers don't fit :bang: :bang: :bang:
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Thanks, you have just reminded me, my mobile has been in my bag since last sunday, just got it out & it had switched off because the battery was flat ;D
I have put it on charge, but I must remember to get a top-up, i ran out a month ago & can never remember to get one ;D
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This thread has me in hysterics because I can relate to so much of it, particularly car keyfobs to open front doors...
Today I used the new self-scan system in our new local Sainsburys branch. I paid by card, walked out then when trying to pay for my goodies in Argos I realised I'd left my card behind. Had to leave my bags at the checkout and walk back to Sainsburys to retrieve the card then return to Argos and rejoin the queue to collect my bags and pay. Embarrassing!
Susieseaside - nice to see another member with house-rabbits!
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Self-scan check outs are putting people out of work >:( anyway, by the time I've read the instructions I might as well have joined a queue and paid ...........
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This is the downside of the self-scan but as the store opens at 8am and the tills don't until 9am there is no alternative for an early shopper!
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Hubby almost did something stupid this morning >:(. For 3 months he has been preparing to attend a Training Course which means he goes away early on a Sunday ...... I *was* up for a cuppa with him at 7.15 feeling nicely relaxed considering; then he wondered out loud whether there is a ring binder in the house that he can put his paper work into at which point my head began to whirl and race ........ :cuss: he's going to bring one home from work during the week :D if we don't find one here but I am NOT the one who will be looking ;)
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My husband got ready for golf this morning, put his clubs and all the other paraphernalia in the boot, got in the car and went to start the engine. He thought "something feels wrong here" and then realised........... he still had his slippers on! It's not meno ladies - it's just age ;D ;D ;D
Taz x
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;D ......... Hubby and I went out yesterday; twice; the 1st time in my car, the 2nd in his: as we were driving back to the house in his car he asked "Where's the Volvo gone?" then giggled ........
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Havent got a 'stupid thing' to write but just wanted to say thanks ladies for the laughs, I have tears of laughter streaming down my face. No doubt I'll be posting one of my own soon!
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If you can't beat us, join us ;)
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I've had a session recently of really silly moments >:(
2 weeks ago I left my reading glasses in the supermarket - I had put them on the end of the shelf near the till but couldn't see where! I left my details in the reception area, an hour later they were 'found' so I was able to collect them.
a few weeks ago I mis-laid my mobile phone. Thought it was in the cars so we eventually turned both out thoroughly - no phone. We have boxes everywhere [see 'weve had words' post ::) ] so I assumed the phone was in amongst boxes etc.; Hubby bought me a brand new mobile this morning from the above supermarket - got it home, sorted it, showed me how it works; went to another store after lunch, happened to ask if I had left my mobile there :-* :-* :-* FOUND :'( it has photos of the dogs I care for, 2 no longer with us ....... Hubby has bought me a pocket hanging thingy in which to store said mobiles which hitches onto the belt of my jeans [bless him].... of course now I won't know which phone is ringing ;D
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I fell asleep in front of the tv last night and when I woke up (feet on coffee table) I kicked a full glass of red wine over onto a cream rug :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
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Now what do you learn from this Cupcake? I am surprised you didn't know this already but the answer is...... never, ever fall asleep while you still have wine in your glass ;D ;D ;D
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Oh CupCake ........... soda water to hand?
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Our dishwasher went on last week when there were about 3 things in it and neither OH nor I could recall putting it on AT ALL, this worried both of us for a while and I started to think Alzheimers, but then he said he reckoned one of us had leaned on the button so we left it at that ... it seems unlikely but perhaps the least worrying answer :o Nothing much ever normal in this house anyway :-X
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It was FLUFF! A small piece of FLUFF which I have just chased down the hall thinking it was a spider ::) ;D - which I could see as clear as mud once I put on my reading glasses :)
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Hi CLKD, :)
This is what I did yesterday. Your mentioning spiders reminded me.
I was in a room at work and I saw this spider on the wall. I moved a bin totally forgetting the spider but when I looked I couldn't see it. Panic. I took off my hi vis vest, took off my tabard then took off my t shirt. THEN I remembered where I actually was. In the mens toilets. Luckily it was the farmers toilet area where men don't go in there too often but I put my t shirt back on pretty quickly I can tell you. I couldn't believe I did that but I just couldn't bear the thought of that spider being on me somewhere. It wasn't a small one.
I'm always doing stupid things.
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My late mum was once visiting a friend who asked her to remove a spider from her hall as she was too nervous to go near it. My mum, not bothered, went up to the spider, couldn't believe her eyes ... went back in to the sitting room and said, 'Angie, that spider is dead and by the look of things, has been dead for some considerable time ....' :)
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I'm forever losing my glasses at school - I put them down and just can't find them. One little lad always finds them for me and I must admit I can never remember leaving them there but he seems to know exactly where I've left them :)
Don't know what I'll do this coming year - he's now moved on to another class.......
Valxx
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Yep always doing or saying stupid things. Went out this evening and dropped into the pub for one drink on our way to collect our Indian take-away. In the pub hubby said he would would like to go to the new Indian restaurant that has opened recently. I said well I could drive us there this evening - I dont need to have another drink. Hubby reminded me that we were where we were because we had just ordered a take-away from our usual!!! ::)
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My sister went to work in odd shoes. They weren't even the same colour.
I've not got that bad yet ;D
Catweazle x
I've done that! Two different black ballet pumps - one matt, one patent. No-one noticed luckily. ;D
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I regularly try to open the car door without unlocking it first! ::)
Orange juice in my tea! ;D
Chrissy, I regularly try to make phone calls on my tv remote.
I think one of the main reasons why we do these silly things is because we are all probably trying to do too many things at once and if you ladies are anything like me, your mind is usually 2 or 3 steps ahead of what you are actually doing, thinking about what you are going to do next. There is no wonder we get confused. :lol:
You are so right. I am finding I am doing stupid things a lot lately but it is because I am thinking about several things at once. My concentration is not good. My husband keeps saying that when I am driving I need to concentrate on just that but I am usually either thinking about the day ahead or what we are having for dinner (and I have the radio on) so driving is only getting a third of my brain - not good I know.
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Hubby found TV remote in fridge this morning..don't ask.. :rofl:
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:lol: oh Go On, do TELL ;)
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I went to the doctor's yesterday only to be told my appointment was the previous day. I came home & looked at my calendar & I'd written it in for the Wednesday - been looking at it all week - but then I missed it & went in on Thursday!
I felt a right nit.
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Often I used to go to work but couldn't remember going through the villages when I got there.
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You must be feeling better to have mis-judged the appointment?
As for driving, I have often done that - driven through areas that I am familiar with and can't remember the journey >:(
I've had a good week - so far ........... either that or I can't remember the silly things I've done ;D
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ha ha im glad im not the only one, its words with me at the moment, i hear myself using the wrong word and people just stare at me, i just smile and go with the flow.
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words escape me daily ::) and I did something silly today but have by now forgotten so can't share it with you ;D
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I felt like a real idiot toaday, impressing someone about seeing Basking WHALES years ago in the Clyde. Eddie. x
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Eddie I was looking at your post trying to understand why you felt like an idiot - I was thinking "well what's wrong with basking whales?" - duh!! - then the penny dropped :stupid: If I had been with you there would have been two of us feeling like idiots ;D
Pam x
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and being corrected by my 14 yr old. Eddie. x
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Make that 3 ::) :-\
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Basking sharks. Eddie. x Glad i'm not alone. ; :P
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Hi
looking through the thread - for a while now I thought I was losing it - to many things to do etc etc.
However I realise it is a common thing to forget.
How many times have I gone upstairs or in another room and asked myself why am I here? Endless :beat: Start to do something else and wander off again, then about 1 hour later it dawns on me what I should have been doing in the first place. As for Lists don't mention Lists - I have loads everywhere. Classic example when I go into town I take a list of things I need to go and do or buy especially when the kids are with me - they always distract me!! You can bet your bottom dollar by the time we get back home which is a 20 mile round trip - look at list, which by the way the youngest is supposed to look after for me! I find I forgot to do the most important thing on the list that is the reason why I went into town in the first place!!
I have put the salt in the fridge, put the milk in the cupboard and cereals in the fridge.
My favourite word is thingymjig you know what I mean!
Deja vu - I seem to get it more and more. Does anyone else seem to experencing Deja vu?
Anyhow lunch beckons. Deja vu again!! ::)
Poohbabe
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Join The Club ;)
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I did that today in school - "Josh don't use the dustpan and brush you need to go and get the ... the....the... that...sucky-uppy thing" Bemused look on seven year old's face "...ummm... do you mean the vacuum cleaner?
Taz x
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My new boss wants us to have phones so that they can get hold of us as and when they want. Also because I work on my own and have an accident when I'm out and about.
She brought it to me on Tuesday and on Wednesday it fell into a bucket of water. I did not know this until I emptied the bucket down the loo and heard a clunk. Almost walked away but thought I should take a look. I was horrified to see it was the new phone.
I took it to the boss and as I handed her the phone I dropped it. She laughed when I told her what had happened and took it to the IT dept to see what could be done. No surprise to learn that they couldn't fix it. ;D
I did feel bad about it but my friends laughed. I did too. But I don't know how it fell into the bucket of water in the first place. It must have been in there for over an hour at least.
Now they are going to get me another one. I'm not sure they should. ;D
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My hospital bleep used to fall into the loo when I sat down as I had it in my back pocket ::) - at least they couldn't reach me once I'd drowned it ;D
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On Saturday, daughter handed me the house phone while I was clearing out the garage. Finished call and put phone on bonnet of car telling myself 'Remember to take into house'.....didn't of course.
Took off in car to collect younger daughter from dancing and wondered what the noise was when I turned the corner - it was the phone flying off the bonnet!
Amazingly, it still works! :D
Wibbs x
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I put the wrong Council bin out for collection. Sadly NOT ONE OF our neighbours told me >:( even though it had been out since 3.15 p.m. and my immediate neighbour stood his 'correct' bin beside ours :'(
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Thanks CLKD, just reminded me to put the bins out, forgot to do them last week >:(
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I've done the phone on top of roof too ::) and 3 years ago did it with my reading glasses in a garden centre, thought as I laid them on top of the car 'souldn't do that!' yep they are in the grass verge somewhere along the A5 >:(.
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Ive just sat and read this thread right through .. and feel so much better for it ... I just thought I was losing the plot but sounds like most of us menopausal ladies are too .. the annoying part is when I know exactly what I am thinking about but cant put the name/words to it .. or think of a song and can actually hum/or sing it but the title wont come out ..going upstairs for something and getting there only to realise Ive forgotten what I went up for and if OH tells me again to "go back over what Ive done" I think I might just clock him. :beat: ;D
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It is really helpful and heartening to read all this but I have a question which my GP was unable/unwilling to answer (she referred me to this website, so brownie points to her) is - will we ever get better?
I know there's going to be an element of forgetfulness/daftness relating to the aging process, but I am hoping that some of my clumsiness/distractedness might improve once my hormones settle down again. Can anyone give me any hope on this, or do I just have to develop a stronger sense of humour and sense of proportion?
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I've heard that it all improves once the hormones settle down and that's what I'm choosing to believe!
Bixby x
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I put milk in my peppermint tea this morning ::)
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:beaurk: to both milk and peppermint tea :-\
I'm not stupid every day just part of the week ::) . I heard a crash this afternoon and was unable to locate the noise; knew it was indoors somewhere and as the dog was sleeping soundly it hadn't been him; later Robin sat outside looking for meal worms and then I discovered the source of the crash - a whole tub of live worms were making for the undersides of the white goods in the utility room .... so out came the brush and dustpan and still I'm picking up the odd mealie making a dash for freedom ::)
I hadn't stood the tub safely! [oh whoose there's a firework >:( ].
It does get better. A sense of humour helps, have you all found the funny room yet ......... ;D
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Its the handbag on the roof of the car for me. I have always managed to get them back as i have seen something in the rear view mirror and retrieved them. The best one was I dropped my mobile phone and did not realise it and the reversed the car and ran over the phone.
I never admitted to that one ;D ;D ;D Just said I had lost it.
Viv
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ive not done silly things but sure thought of them haha the mental side of mena stinks grrrrrrrr
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The other day decided to be good and start having tinned mackerel for lunch a couple of times a week .. the oil is supposed to be good for you.. I opened this tin and put it into a bowl .. had some on toast covered the rest in foil and popped it in the fridge.. All that day and the next whenever I went to the fridge I looked at this bowl covered with foil and had to roll the foil back to remind myself what it was.. :stupid:
I agree with Bixby I choose to believe it will all settle down....
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Oh big senior moment yesterday ::) I'd put an office desk onto freegle and a girl I vaguely know came to look at it, yep she would take it so we lifted most of it into her car. As soon as she had driven off; and as soon as I walked into our bedroom; what should I see but the drawers ::) ....... so I e-mailed immediately [she woudln't have been home yet] and she replied 'I thought it was a bit slim-line!'. So Hubby will empty said drawers and take them to her next week ::) ::) :-[
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:rofl:
Just to prove it isn't just a menopausal problem my husband was playing golf last weekend and took out his favourite ball marker. He took his shot, walked over to the ball and went to put his marker in place. He searched everywhere for it - in his tee box, in his bag, in his pockets but couldn't find it. It was only when he went to speak to his golfing buddy and something fell out of the corner of his mouth that he remembered where he had put it!!!! He told me this so that I could remind everyone that it isn't just us women who are seemingly going daft!!
Taz x
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Thank you ha ha.me too.Luv u all.xx Kirsteenmc.
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Just been reading this thread through a mixture of laughter and tears.
I really thought I must be going mad and now realize it`s just another symptom of perimenopause.
I am 52 (my birthday was last month) and have had various symptoms for a few years now.
However what is really concerning me now is my memory. I have caused several rather bad arguments with my husband due to me not understanding simple things he was trying to explain to me.
He thinks I`m trying to send him mad and I think he`s trying to tell me I`m going crazy. :(
I have tried to explain to him that I think it`s something to do with my hormones but he keeps on saying I have got to stop getting angry with him. I know it`s not his fault but I`ve snapped at him and my son today.
I used to be really on the ball but am now feeling out of control.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Going to get ready to go out now. Think I need a break from the house - may see things in a different way then.
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Hi Baggiebird - perhaps you can get your husband to read this http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2458.0.html It can help when it is down in black and white that we are really not being difficult or going mad!!
Taz x :)
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we used to have conversations about whether Hubby *had* told me; or not >:( ... now we have lists, reminders, notes on calenders ........
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Join The Club ;)
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Hi Baggiebird - perhaps you can get your husband to read this http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2458.0.html It can help when it is down in black and white that we are really not being difficult or going mad!!
Taz x :)
Thank you Taz - I`ll get him to read it.
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we used to have conversations about whether Hubby *had* told me; or not >:( ... now we have lists, reminders, notes on calenders ........
CLKD - Think I`ll have to start writing things down, it will be a big help.
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sweet4 - Thanks for the reply. Never seen Desperate Housewives so can`t relate to that. However I can relate to how everyone else feels on here :)
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The other night it was really cold (-2/3?). My partner and I were sitting watching TV and there was the most horrendous icy cold draft coming in through the patio doors, so we had to wrap up in blankets despite heating being on full blast. I was having a moan about how we need to replace the doors as they are so draughty ('boy'friend looking po faced - more expense). The next day I was informed by smug 'boy'friend that the patio doors had actually been left wide open all evening and night - at some point, during the day I had 'apparently' gone outside through the patio doors, then come back into kitchen thru back door, and then shut the curtains across patio doors not noticing that they were open - huh?. Of course I denied everything. But no wonder it was b****cold there was snow on the ground outside!
Can I have a new brain please?
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Oh My Ann you must have been frozen ..although our inner glows warm us up ..
I thought I was bad enough when I handed over a Boots points card instead of my Nectar one in Sainsburys today ..the girl just sat looking at it and I said Ooops dont worry im at that funny age .. there was an elderly couple behind and the man said to his wife.. I remember you like that ..she didnt look to happy. :-X
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Mind you, you could read it as meaning that it all improves again later - that's my belief and I'm sticking to it! ;)
Bixby x
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Finished checking my texts on the mobile this morning when our house phone rang .... mobile number I didn't recognise and no-one on the other end although I said hello a few times .... went back to the mobile, you guessed it, I had rung myself. >:( You couldn't make it up!!
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Phew bet you were relieved at that one and not a stalker! ::)
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Is there any Hope ;D ...... it's surprising AnnT that you didn't come into the room next morning and find half of Nature's Wild life on the settee trying to warm up ::)
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Well - I have been followed :o - I could hear rustling behind me as I walked around the house, evetually locating a plastic bag stuck to the back of my jeans :P
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Brilliant CLKD! :rofl:
Bette x
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Whoops ::)
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Finished checking my texts on the mobile this morning when our house phone rang .... mobile number I didn't recognise and no-one on the other end although I said hello a few times .... went back to the mobile, you guessed it, I had rung myself. >:( You couldn't make it up!!
Ha, so glad someone else has done that!
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even Hubby laughed at the plastic bag episode :-*
I had to pay a cheque into the bank this morning, got half way to town and had a visual experience of it still being on the kitchen table >:( [this is a cheque which I had for my birthday in Dec., which was put down in a 'safe' place and only surfaced 2 days ago ] :-\
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Hi ladies
hurrah i am normal then ive been worried that i have been doing strange things and worrying that im loosing the plot i did something at work and then thought why did i do that thought it might have been the tablets i was on to prevent migraines but i have come off them because of other side effects so will see if it was anything to do with them but its probably the hrt or meno again but its worrying isnt it i am trying to concentrate onwhat i am doing and trying not to be doing too many things at once not easy for me but have got to slow down . it is like someone else is inside me doing things i not aware of Oh dear im beginning to sound mad arnt I. i have mentioned this to my doc recently and she didnt seem to think i was going loopy but it seems we do blame the hormones for a lot of our symptoms anyway nice to know im not alone
js
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Hello ladies I'm new to this forum but have been lurking awhile. Ive been browsing this particular topic as I'm getting really concerned about the silly things that I actually do. ( and have to say I have had a really good chuckle at the things I've read )
My latest escapade was last Friday, I look after my 6month old Grandson on a Friday...anyway, my husband took his car in to be serviced and asked me if I would pick him up from the garage...so I went to collect him at the said time, he got in the car and noticed that the babies car seat was still in the back of the car...its a rear facing car seat so he couldn't see the baby, on our drive home my husband was chatting away to Joshua and I was just concentrating on my driving and generally not taking much notice of what he was talking to Joshua about...hubby says to me..Joshua's quiet..to which I replied hm yea.We arrived home and hubby opened the back passenger door to lift Joshua out...and went completely white... he looked at me and asks me where is the baby? I said in the house with one of our other daughters, he looked at me aghast and said why have you let me talk to the baby all the way home knowing hes not in the car." and do you know what I still don't have the answer " :o
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Hi Amber
:welcomemm:
Sounds like you'll fit right in! ;D
Bette x
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Yup. sound fine to me, welcome aboard. Eddie. x
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Have you read this thread, Amber?
http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8990.0.html
Bette x ;D
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Hi Amber - welcome to the forum.
The answer is... it gave you a bit of peace ;D ;D
Taz x
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:clapping: you've browsed round, joined in, you'll fit right in with us :tulips: ...... you were concentrating on your driving and we all know that women are safer drivers ;)
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Yes that's right, so why can't we get a discount anymore. :cuss:
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Yesterday I was making some toast for my lunch. Well when I say making, that was what I was supposed to be doing. I'm standing there in the kitchen waiting for my toast to pop up, except it didn't! I thought it was taking a long time. No wonder had switched on toaster but hadn't put bread in! DUH! That might be why then! ;D
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I "cooked" the frozen peas in the microwave yesterday. Had everything else on the plates all ready to be served, opened the microwave door.....yes you have guessed it. I forgot to put them in ::)
I really do give up.
Honeyb
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Amber
Yesterday I locked the front door shut the flyscreen and went to work
Came home 4hrs later looked in my bag no keys I oaniced Bobbles is away
So I rang work on the mobile frantic they couldnt find them said theyd have another look ring back in 2mins
I turned around saw the flyscreen door open and my keys still in the front door
Id eveidently locked it turned around shut the flyscreen door which of course wouldnt close with the keys sticking out
Id run to get my lift OK says you why didnt you see fly screen door and keys straight away
We have a table and chairs outside the huse and i always put my bag on that and get my keys out duuuuuuu
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We don't see it because we don't expect them to be there ::)
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Thankyou ladies for your warm wellcome....so nice to know im going to fit in and look forward to reading your posts. off on holiday saturday morning have loads to do so will catch up with you all soon :)
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When I left work this afternoon, I saw that a lorry and trailer with a small digger on it was parked right across the exit of our car park. I looked around the car park but could see no gap in the line of parked cars opposite mine that I could drive through and out of the far exit.
There was a man roping the digger onto the trailer so I went up to ask him if he was loading or unloading the digger as I couldn't get out until he moved. He said not to worry, he'd be gone a minute or two. As I turned to walk back to my car, I noticed there was no-one parked BEHIND me and I could just have reversed out! But in my embarassment and in case he noticed, I felt compelled to sit and wait till he moved and then drove off.
How stupid I felt. ::)
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This was a few years ago now, but looking back I see it was the start of Peri and my mad behavior started around then. We hade been coming home from Bridport and around the approach to Yeovil I had a sudden urge for a wee. Hubby said he needed some petrol so we'd pull into a garage and I could use the loo while he filled up. On auto-pilot, like I am so much theses days I got to the loo, did the nec, put myself straight, flushed and tried to leave. The door was stuck fast, then thinking how I get stuck in shops pulling the door when I should push, I tried that. Nothing, it wouldn't budge. So I pulled and pushed harder. Still nothing. By now I was frantic, so I heaved my shoulder against it.. it moved, a little. SO I did it again, it moved a bit more, but only at the bottom. I kept at it, and eventually managed to crawl out underneath. Got to the car filthy, and crumpled, and swearing like a trooper, told hubby what had happened, then as we drove off hoping no-one would see I had broken their door, I realised.......... It was a SLIDING door. Never even noticed when I went in. They've pulled the garage down and re-built it since.
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>:( ... how awful! hope you weren't going a-visiting ???
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yep, just the sort of thing I'd do!! :clapping:
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Well we can blame things on a meno brain, but how about my 16yr old daughter.
She got up this morning a had a big bowl of cereal. She then proceeded to pour fizzy water over it ;D ;D.
All I could do was laugh, heaven help her when she gets to my age.
Honeyb
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Oh YUK!
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Witches cat, that was brilliant. One for the Hall of Meno. Eddie. x
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Didn't seem quite so brilliant at the time, left the damn thing hanging like a cat-flap.... good job we were on our way home, I looked a real fright, garage forecourts aren't the cleanest of places to crawl around. When I told my son, he looked skyward and said, oh for god's sake mother.......
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I was holding one of my intervention sessions at school today. I got everything ready in the allocated room and then put the poster on the door informing people that the session was in progress and that they should knock and wait. I then went to get my first victim :) Chatting merrily away to her we went along to the room. I saw the notice so recently put up by me and.... knocked and waited..... after a while a little voice beside me said "what are we waiting for Miss?" No hope for me!
Taz x ;D
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Patches not working then Taz
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Honeyb
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I can imagine your expression Taz! Lucky you had a pupil with you to help!
WitchesCat- I bet you always check loo doors extra carefully now!
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Last night I was about to step into a lovely deep bubble bath - in my knickers ::)
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haha clk i put my electric toothbrush in fringe it was on top charging hasha now off to have teeth whitenined
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Yesterday: I was topping up the pond with the hose, filling watering cans, taking water to the chickens' run - unwrapped the extension from the tap on the wall ......... turned on tap on wall later in the day but picked up the extension hose :-\ - fortunately the hose from the tap on the wall was facing the 'wrong' way and not up my trouser legs but it was a close one :D
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and there was me thinking i,d lost my mind,,,bloomin meno brain..i went out about amonth ago while have anxiety atacck to get milk ,,but trying to get rid of it..went and got the milk ,,the shop kepper asked if i was ok ,,i smiled and said yes ,,even though i wasnt ,,then i relized i had nt put my false teeth in ,,,so for some un know reason he gave me a free bag of peanuts..(give the silly old women some nuts to suck on) so while smileing to my self all the way home,,i put i teeth safely back in my mouth..and walked the dog...BEV ;D ;D ;D
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i gave them to my son..he,s got teeth ..LOL ;D ;D ;D
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As I was leaving for work this morning I saw a courier was trying to deliver a large parcel to my next door neighbour who was out. I said I would take it in and so he got out his gadget to put the details on.
He asked me my house number and...............I DIDN'T KNOW! I actually had to look at my front door! Then he asked me my name but luckily, I knew that one ;D
ariadne xx
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I met an old neighbour from the house before last and she asked me where I had moved to. I gave her the right house number but the wrong street. As soon as it was out of my mouth I knew I had got it wrong, but for the life of me I could not bring myself to correct the mistake. ::)
What a diddy
Honeyb
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;D ;D I did that once honeyb,
I can remember when I'd met an old neighbour...trying to remember the name of the avenue, but I just couldn't remember for the life of me!
I think she thought I didn't want her to know, but it wasn't that honestly!
Actually I was quite grateful for my brief memory loss that time because [I never really liked her] ;)
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This made me giggle so here is mine
Mine was a trip to Sainsbury and I was off of the planet with my hormones. It was before a Christmas and I had collected a load of wine (organic of course and enough to lubricate a small army - seemed logical at the time). I went to get a TV Times from the magazine section as I had just got a TV - having separated from my partner and having been told by my Mother "Get a life and get a television". I walked away without a TV Times as they had sold out (I was getting more grumpy) and people started to look at me. I was feeling irritable that they should think it ok to look at me when all I was doing was stocking up for Christmas so I LOOKED back. A few moments (probably quite a long time) later past the veg and moving towards the dairy products I looked down at my trolley. It was a different size, much bigger, and full of the bundles of magazines for stocking up the shelves.
So I went back to the magazines, smiling nicely at all the people who I had been rude to, rolling my eyes and tutting innocently to show how silly I was. Picked up my smaller trolley full of wine and carried on my way. No longer a nutter just an alcoholic!
I then went to the Dr who put me on hormones to reboot my system. Perhaps they should be called normones?
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DaisyChain you fit right in here ;D - I've been known to stack another shoppers' trolley whilst he looked on, why is it always a man ::) - then Hubby nudged me with our trolley :-[
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Ohhh dont .. my OH is tall with a bald head.. so when I wander off to get things on my list I then look around for his head ..which is usually above most others .. so I dropped my things in this trolley was chatting away about the things I still needed to get .......and looked up ..I dont know who was more surprised me or this poor bald headed stranger looking very afraid....
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:rofl: :rofl: This is like reading my own diary.....if I had a diary [which I don't] I'd probably forget to write in it :rofl: cm xx
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I love these - I could go on forever about mine and it is quite therapeutic so I will on and off!!
Another was when I couldn't remember my sisters name. Word finding difficulties are tremendous. In meetings now it has become a game - guess the word I am trying to think of. I have quite a big vocab when my brain is working properly
To help myself I am going to design an adult clip to keep my hat and gloves safely attached to my coat so I do not lose them. I have lost three hats this year. I wish I could lose some others but it is always the nice ones. I just put them down and walk off!
Does anyone ever discover old pants down their trouser legs? Is it only me?
To anyone who is reading this who is new to the world of changing hormones - yesterday I could not have found this funny. Things can get better.
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Oh yes the pants down the trouser leg, I went out like that once, they were dangling out of my jeans at the ankles, OMG, thankfully my then hubby noticed them before anyone else did. ;D Of course it gave him a good laugh. Oh yeah I was only about 24 then too. :D
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Socks but never knickers - yet ::)
I like the sound of a clip ......... Dragons Den moment coming on?
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I once told a lady who was out shopping about the sock that was peeping out underneath her trousers! She was so grateful.
A colleague of mine (similar age) told me that she shopping in a store with her husband and unaware he had wandered off, said to the man next to her "I need to go home for a poo soon" Then she looked up and saw it was a complete stranger ;D
ariadne xx
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Tee hee
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:rofl: :rofl: Thank God I haven't done that one in the supermarket ariadne....yet ;D
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This is my favourite chain so far. I was smiling over tea about the stream of funnies.
Another of my favourites was getting an invite to an end of year review. The review was to celebrate our achievements and was to be held in London. When I looked at the address it was Buckingham Palace!!!! I was soo excited. I thought hard about it and said that really I felt my line manager should go.
I told the consultant who was supporting me with my work and he replied "I think you will find it is Buckingham Place room in a building not of that name"
I enjoyed the mistake!
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This is my favourite chain so far. I was smiling over tea about the stream of funnies.
Another of my favourites was getting an invite to an end of year review. The review was to celebrate our achievements and was to be held in London. When I looked at the address it was Buckingham Palace!!!! I was soo excited. I thought hard about it and said that really I felt my line manager should go.
I told the consultant who was supporting me with my work and he replied "I think you will find it is Buckingham Place room in a building not of that name"
I enjoyed the mistake!
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You enjoyed it that much that you had to tell us TWICE Daisy. :rofl: :rofl: I too love this thread ;)
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;D - or we're full of it this morning :-*
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:rofl: :rofl: I used to wear the hold ups as well, but you always get one leg falling down.. end up walking like long John Silver, Its not a very sexy look ;D
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I wore hold-ups to my Dad's funeral, as I left the Church they began to drift south >:( but I had to Meet and Greet with my legs together for what seemed like ages and each time I headed to the loo someone stopped me to offer condolances ;D
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Went to put the toaster away in the washing machine this morning!
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MY list of silly things i do could go on for ever...so i wont start.....hope it gets better at the end of meno.. ;D ;D ;DBEV..
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Picked up all the tokens to spend. Drove to the Store. Wandered round and filled the trolley. Arrived at the Check-out: handed over tokens ....... girl asks 'when did we begin taking Staples tokens' ............ ::) ....... paid and wandered out nonchantly :whist:
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I am an Avon rep, have been for 16 years, last night i was collecting in books and i knew which books i had to go back for, took notes as usual in my little book, well i re-appeared at this door, told by the man of the house that someone had collected it, lady shouted from next room, "yes, about 30 mins ago, a small lady in a blue jacket called *****" at which point i said "that's me? I apologised and left. I have no knowledge of this, even now, i have counted my books and i must have it, i have re-traced my steps, first time i did that street i was on foot but still can't place it. I really embarrassed about it. Stupid meno brain.
Eddie. x
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Oh I have complete blanks about whether I have done something or not, even when Hubby explains the situation I still can't recall it! That aspect of forgetfulness is what bothers me the most >:(
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Usually if i think about it from a different angle i can remember things, but this is bugging me, i was so embarrassed. Until i counted my books i adamant that she was wrong. ::) Eddie. x
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It wasn't until Hubby went through word by word a conversation we had about 3 weeks ago that I remembered it at all, I had denied the situation totally. I now know not to 'go off' at him when he tells me "we talked about this already" ::)
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Aw Eddie I do feel for you. Yesterday I decided to ring my friend for a chat...rang the number, female answered... I said is Sue there she answered no ( I recognised the voice but couldn't put a name to it ) so I said who"s that? she said Louise (my daughter) I said what you doing there? she said what do you mean what am I doing here I live here, I felt so confused I put the phone down ::) Im sure my senior moments are getting worse :-\
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I had a day of it - didn't realise until this morning though ::) - went to the Opticians yesterday and after the eye-test sailed out of the shop without paying - but didn't realise until breakfast time!
After the Opticians I went to get some keys cut, it was more for 1 key than I had in my purse so told the shop I would go back. I had my debit card with me though ::) - later in the afternoon I went to the village shop and asked for the amount of goods to be put onto the paper bill - back home I found my debit card on the kitchen table, I knew I didn't have much case in my purse but
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Off to ring the Opticians!
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Had to see the nurse recently for very minor procedure, the anticipation was worse than the event. In my bid to beat a hasty retreat I picked up some glasses that were laying on a trolley, they looked like mine, the nurse said “they're mine actuallyâ€. Are they, said, I. “Yes†she said, “you've got yours onâ€.
We went out one Sunday for a drive. It was early when we stopped and I jumped out to go to the loo. Hmmm funny basins I thought, looks different since last time I visited. While in a cubicle I heard men's voices, thought it must be male cleaners. When I came out husband said “you went in the gents, didn't you noticeâ€. “Did I, oh well, needs must. Thought it looked odd.†Good job no one was in there when I left.
Another toilet incident, this time exiting. At an exhibition coming out of the toilets I kept pushing a door (no handle) but it wouldn't open. “I can't get out†I said to the queue behind. A woman behind me said “let's try this other door†and pulled it open, the one marked exit. I heard her friend say, that's the type of thing that usually happens to me.
Sleepless :oops:
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Why does 'it' happen when there are others around though ::)
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Yesterday I needed to scramble an egg. Put opened egg into bowl and put into fridge. Switched on microwave and set to 'go'. Opened microwave door: no bowl ::)
This morning went to the PO on the way to collect the dog: posted letters 1st Class, came home - without ??? ::)
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Today I went to the Supermarket and unloaded the trolley onto the belt. When I got to the other end there was a large box of tissues and I began to run after the previous customer, an old man ......... until the lad on the till told me the box is mine ::) ........... note the 'run after' I sort of slinked back :-\
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I've opened the patio to the sun today. We usually go in and out by the back door. So when I got to the back door earlier I couldn't understand why it wouldn't open :bang: :bang: :bang: ........... a moment of panic there then ::)
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Ive noticed the way OH looks at me now that Ive made a gaffe .. Ive lived in my house since having my daughter in 1976 ... we were watching Escape to the country and a lady had lived in her house for 30 years I said " Ive been here since 1996 ..1996 almost 40 years" he just looked and said what did you just say.. laughed and shook his head ... I so nearly thumped him :beat:
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Oh I know, you could just kill them couldn't you...its that smug patronising look that gets me! >:(
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I can't add up or take away so don't get it anyway ::)
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OK ckld ..have lived in my house since 1976... and I said to OH ....1996 ..... oh never mind I knew what I meant everything seems to come out the wrong way .. cant get my brain into gear before I open my mouth.... ;D :bang: :lol:
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Oh that's common here too ::)
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Well I had a moment yesterday. I was in a store where I'd bought a couple of items and my daughter was going through the next till. The cashier had put my items through and told me how much it was and I was looking in my bag for my purse and couldn't find it - cue the panic setting in and me in a very loud voice saying I'd lost my purse and could I borrow some money drawing loads of attention to myself :-[, only to find I'd put it in the different section of my bag that I never use normally, I felt such a fool as I'd only used it minutes beforehand in another shop.
I also keep mislplacing the dishcloth which turns up either in the fridge or the pedal bin and constantly forget things that I've just been told. I think I drive everyone mad asking them to repeat everything that I should know already!
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It's your age ;) ::) - what did DD say?
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She rolled her eyes and just said 'Cool mum' Made me feel loads better (not!) ::) ;D
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;D Foggy thats me down to a tee, when daughter and I are shopping I'm always struggling to find my purse, now the only solution is, daughter keeps my purse with her untill weve finished our shopping! ;)
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Just put washing liquid in the place where the fabric softener goes!!! ::)
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Shopping earlier, wandered towards a blue car with a similar registration, fortunately saw the strange man in the driving seat which alerted me to the fact that my car was parked further alone the line - same make, same colouring ::)
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I frequently go up/down stairs or into other rooms and have no idea why I went there - stand there like a compelte eejit looking around hoping for divind inspiration!
But my latest gaffe.......I work from home, have an office upstairs. Went down to kitchen get cup of tea, went back up to office, sat at computer to discover TV remote sat on keyboard. Absolutely no idea when I went down to get it, don;t remember picking it up and certainly don;t remember taking it upstairs! :o What happens with the brain synapses to cause us to do such stoopid things????
Put the butter in the cupboard the other day - luckily hubby saw me and quietly took it out and put it in the fridge!
And does anyone else have trouble remembering words? I get part way thru a sentence and can't for the life of me remember the word I want to use!
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I've got the word thing really badly. OH and my friends just help me out - I make a joke of it and they just smile and provide the word. I'm determined to keep seeing the funny side of it - I think letting it get to you is the worst thing we can do. I've heard that "meno brain" improves again once you're "out the other side" so I'm looking forward to that! ;D
Bette x
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Words are real problem for me at the moment. I keep making them up or rather they come out of my mouth incorrectly........'serectual' harrassment & psychconarnia (god, what was I thinking?) are the latest.
You've got to laugh at yourself though. Best way!
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I do that and I can not find words. It can be so frustrating. My friends play guess the word with me.
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I hope it doesn't get any worse. Can laugh at it when Im home but embarrassing when I'm working!
Other classic is getting part way thru sentence & completely forgetting what I was saying! Hubby uses that one to his advantage LOL!!
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Oh the word thing is just so frustrating and embarrassing, when your talking to a neighbour or someone in tesco's and start stuttering...I want to kick myself sometimes...feel so stupid >:(
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thanks ladies i have not had so much fun in years reading these post ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My friend and I have complete conversations without using the correct words but we know what we're talking about and now Himself has begun to need words filling in ;D [ I can see us having complete conversations when we are together much more without anyone else being able to follow them ::) ]
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Does anyone remember the Hilda Baker series that was on years ago? think it was called Nearest and Dearest?
it was about a pickle factory....well she was always getting her words mixed and muddled up ;D
God bless her... She lives on through most of us here. :D
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There was a man on the radio in the 1906s who used to make sentences up with complete gobbledygook ..........
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Yes I think I remember him CLKD, he used to be on the Tele, as well.
It was amazing to listen to...very clever!
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Stan someone ??? <scratches head>
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Yeah Stan.... errm ??? ? come on someone out there must know.
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Taz, oh Taaaazzz :poke2:
Did a GOOGLE and it was Stanley Unwin ........ there's a good web-site dedicated to his Uniwense way of talking ........
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Thanks CLkD...Id have been thinking that one over all day ::)
He was in one of the carry on films wasnt he...was it carry on regardless?...oh no, here I go again! :-\
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Pass - I'll leave you to GOOGLE that one ;)
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Ok now ladies i really do need help i put jacket potatoes in the oven for tea tonight at 4pm for my husband and I fine nothing wrong with that at about 5pm i put in the oven chicken nuggets and frozen chips and got a box of microchips outof the freezer for my sons tea to do in the microwave which he wanted i then came to dish up and got the chips out of the oven and put them on the plate and completely forgot that i had put the jacket potatos in which were cooking in the same oven i just stood there and laughed i found it so funny i was laughing to myself so much my son and husband came to see what the hell i was laughing at so after i explained what i did we had to try and eat the jacket potatoes and chips needless to say we are very full but why did i do it and it didnt even twig when i put the chips in the oven when i saw the jacket potatoes what is happening to my brain i think its quite worrying actually that you can do something like that it makes me wonder if you could do something more serious i sincerely hope not please ladies tell me im not going mad i know we have had this discussion before does your brain have a seizure or something interesting to know i am peri meno and have been warned about doing stupid things
js :o
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Am I allowed to laugh ;) ........ Jacket potatoes are lovely cold, opened up with hot beans, or coldslaw, or HP sauce [anyone tried the Guiness HP Sauce?] .........
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Guiness brown sauce ..ahhh love it .. if I was pregnant I'd say it was a craving.. ;D
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I can't imagine Guiness as a sauce :o :beaurk:
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Im not sure it tastes like guiness :o Im not keen on ordinary brown sauce but was putting some of this guiness one on a sandwich for OH and had a taste .. its slightly sweeter and tangy ..very moreish ;D
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I saw it in Tesco for the first time a couple of wweks ago, yuk dont like guiness anyway.cant imagine what it tastes like :P
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Coffeemate thats just how I felt ..cant stand Guiness and not that keen on brown sauce ..but this is good :)
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Melis If it looks good...... tastes good......and by golly it does you good.....then I'll give it a go! :D
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Haha Coffemate .. definetly worth a sample ...been using it in cooking and added it to mince last night
(by the way I like your namesake in my coffee too)
I remember when I was pregnant back in the 70's being told to drink Guiness by the midwife
tried it once and couldnt stand the stuff :P
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I LOVE Guiness but only with a clover leaf drawn in the froth ;)
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:) laughing at all the posts , yesterday i went to , pay the machine , for parking my car , the ticket , thingy wouldnt , go in the ,machine , it was rejected , so i went , ready to tell the man , when i got there , he said , im not suprised ..................... its a train ticket ::) ::)lol , its strange all the diffrent , things , that come with .the peri stage . some day , can laugh , at my self . but others days , i just cant seem , to even , manage a smile :'( life really , is so short , i remember , as it seems like , yesterday being 21 , now im nearly 48 :(
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You're fitting in Real Fine ;D
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;D ;D I know its tragic really Dylan...but I had to laugh.
cm xx
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This morning i sprayed my under arms with perfume instead of deodorant....Sat at work at 11.30am and though oh bloomin hell, did i turn on the hose pipe at 7am this morning to water the plants in the garden (pipe was in the watering can as i needed to fill it 1st to water pots at the front of house). Got home at 1.30pm and yes i had turned it on, watering can was full and overflowing water everywhere....good job we don't have a water meter. Meno brain comes to mind.
TM
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Why does having a water meter make any difference?
I put on 2 pairs of reading glasses today ::)
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It makes a BIG difference as we have found to our regret since moving to this property, wer'e paying four times more than we did in our last home.
If anyone is thinking of getting a water metre be warned!!
cm xx
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Yes there is a big difference, even though we've learned not to leave taps running and all the usual tips they give for saving water, wer'e still paying roughly 200 pounds a year more! :o
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We dont have water meters up here (West Scotland).....too much bl***y rain is why ::)
I cant even remember the last time someone mentioned the word drought. Monsoon yes.....drought no ;D ;D
If anyone needs some water....give me a call, we have more than enough for all.
Honeyb
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Talking of spraying under arms with the wrong thing (a few posts back), I once mistook fly spray for deodorant! I thoght it smelt different as I did it but I was in a hurry and didn't notice what I'd done till I saw both cans side by side later. It made a very effective deodorant though.
Jenny X
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There's 2 of us and we pay less on a meter ??? ...... even with watering the garden although I do draw a line at washing the cars!
Nothing done stupidly yet but I'm working on it ;)
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There is only two of us now aswell CLKD
What does my head in is the fact that our meter is underground, so we cant easily read it oursselves to make sure there are no errors...especially when they estimate our usage! :o
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Our meter is deep, I can't get the cover off but Himself has a 'tool' ::) ....... never think to look though !
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If the various water companies were to maintain things properly then there would be no shortages and no need for anyone in this country to have a water meter. Its just ridiculous.
Honeyb
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Many pipes across the UK are not maintained: some because they are forgotten by the various Water Boards, others because they are copper [I think] which leaks; some Authorities can't be bothered to maintain their pipes it's easier to order a hose-pipe ban if necessary even though they keep taking money from householders >:( ..........
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Doing stupid things? Oh yes! Does losing your bank card twice in one month count? What happened on both occasions was I went into a shop, bought stuff and went to pay - then couldn't find the bank card!
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and other stupid things are posting an incomplete message....... meant to finish by saying that I was quite worried about the bank card thing - until I stupidly told my husband and he smirked and siad, "you've been doing stupid things for 35 years" so now instesd of worry, I got blind rage and desire to hit him round the head with a blunt instrument.
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Hi all, not been onhere for a while due to being too busy keeping an eye on father-in-law who's just had a hip replaced, his 4 day stay turned into 11 due to falling out of bed twice and dislocating the new hip and doing other mad things under the influence of the morphine. Anyway, one morning while he was still in hospital, I'd "done" one cat litter tray and was at the top of the stairs talking to hubby about all the stuff we had to cram into the day before we got to go visit again, had one hand on the bannister rail, the other holding a nappy sack of used cat litter..... lord knows how it happened but I suddenly found myself sitting bolt upright on the bottom stair. Somehow I managed to go down the first section of stairs on my back, vaguely remember seeing the corner post approaching and grabbed for it, had I not done that I'd have hit the wall in the right angle of the staircase and stopped there. But no, having grabbed the post it whipped me round into the perfect position go down the next lot still flat out, and end up at the bottom, hubby heard me bumping down the stairs and called down "you ok?" ...as if... It must have been like a drunk hitting the pavement, so relaxed not a bruise on me and all the cat litter still in the bag. I didn't even have time to yell out as I went.... :-\
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Thank goodness you held onto the cat litter :o
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Now that takes skill, Witches Cat; I'm impressed! :medal:
Hope that f-in-l is ok now and that you manage to get a bit of time for yourself.
Bette x
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The other morning thought I'd take a cuppa and the iPad back to bed for a while to look at the forum.
When I got back to my bed I tried to turn the iPad on and it came up with a 0. I thought urrr? What's wrong with this?
I had only took up my digital scales instead which were on the worktop near the iPad.Duuurrr!!! :-\. ;D
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Bette x
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:rofl: :o sorry ...........
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I got home from work today & there was a small red chilli pepper sitting on the worktop in the kitchen. Not knowing at the time that hubby had bought it home at lunchtime, I sent him a text saying:
There's a little red chilli in our kitchen, is it yours?
When he got in from work this evening he showed me the text that I had actually typed, & sent:
There's a little red chilli in our chicken, is it yours?
It makes me wonder about some of the emails I send out at work - I really must double check them.
Love Cazi xxx
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:rofl: I emptied half a large packet of cornflakes over the kitchen floor this morning >:(
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Have to ask... why CLKD?
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In my hand one moment, the next all over the floor >:( - I was trying to stuff the inner bag back into the box but Kello*s don't make the boxes large enough ::)
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Yeh I find that when one thing goes wrong a whole string of things go wrong, and you know it's "just one of those days" ::)
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This morning I was on hands and knees cleaning out the quails' run. Heard a loud squeaking from behind :o thought I had sat on a quail. Sat up. Noise stopped. No squashed quail.
Continued cleaning, moved feet, heard loud squeaking. Put hairs up the back of my neck :-\. Sat up. Noise stopped.
Continued cleaning etc.; looked round, saw new black shoes, heels rubbing together :D
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: You have made my day CLKD!!
Taz x
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Good - I did wonder if anyone would be able to interpret my scarey moment :D
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I've been dropping things again. Tripping over my slippers .............. not forming words correctly or saying the 'wrong' things >:( i.e. I was telling someone that we visited a place and told them 'last night' instead of 'yesterday morning' ........ what is it with my BRAIN :oops:
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Oh I hate going food shopping these days, I seem to end up in a fluster at the till - trying to pack my bags and searching for my purse at the same time, and I can NEVER find the money off coupons I so CAREFULLY put in the back of my purse - then of course as soon as she closes the till - I find them!!
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I used to get exasperated at times at my MIL's forgetfulness and clumsy antics. But now I'm at that stage myself and the shoe is on the other foot, or in my case one morning at work and pointed out to me by a colleague - a slipper on one and a shoe on the other ::) I'll bet MIL in looking down from heaven now and going :na:
Nel x
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... or in my case one morning at work and pointed out to me by a colleague - a slipper on one and a shoe on the other ::) I'll bet MIL in looking down from heaven now and going :na:
Nel x
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:lol: so far I've had a better day ........ :-X
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I did think I was going mad. I made cold coffee this morning (a first). I walk miles extra because I go to get something, forget it and go back again. I made chicken pie recently, had it in the oven, then saw the soup in the jug that should have been in it. Put on a load of washing and completely forgot about it.
I really like the bit about leaving the husband behind - haven't managed that yet.
I think my worst one was going to church. I read the lesson. I started to read, couldn't see the page properly and it was only when I went back to the seat that I realised that one of the lenses from my glasses was missing. I really don't trust myself at the moment and looking at the list here I have a lot of new things to do yet.
Still, it makes life interesting.
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I started to read, couldn't see the page properly and it was only when I went back to the seat that I realised that one of the lenses from my glasses was missing.
That happeend to a lady at work. She didn't realise till half way through the day when she went to scratch her eye and was able to do it through her glasses! ::) She found the lens in her car where it must have dropped out of the frame that morning on the way to work.
ariadne xx
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I went to pick up my son yesterday. Daughter was in the front of the car and son opened back car door and put something in. I thought he had got in too so I drove off. I did not realise he had not got in the car ::)
I was a good way along the road and wondering why he was not chatting to me....I then glanced at my daughter who was in silent fits of laughter......she did not tell me he was not in the car. :o I then had to turn around and go back to pick up a very bemused son.
Honeyb
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I love reading these. I do far to many to mention in fact my family and now me call them my senior moments thats the polite word ;D
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Love that one, Honeyb! :clapping: :bighug:
Bette x
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This thread is great ;D ;D ;D
I turned the volume of radio in my car up because I could not hear what my son was saying. ( radio was off of course)
I always forget words. Happened in the middle of a lesson, I couldn't think what I was talking about, big diagram on whiteboard, mind went blank. I'd been teaching on autopilot ;D ;D ;D gave kids Q to do and checked book to see if I had taught them correctly and if diagram was labeled correctly.
Thank goodness it was ;D ;D
I have to plan well in advance if going anywhere so that I can get the car packed with everything we MIGHT need.
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Oh dear HB ..mine is minor in comparison .. I have a little portable timer for when Im cooking..otherwise my foggy brain would just forget ..Im so easily distracted and wander onto so many other thoughts.. anyway coloured my hair yesterday morning and set my timer for my 15mins ..all fine pleased with hair.. later in day looked everywhere for my timer ..all the usual places then the fridge..microwave.. oven..eventually had to tackle the rubbish bin ..there it was in the empty box of hair colour........................... :o
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;D :o sorry ::)
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Oh Mel that gave me a good chuckle ;D
Nel x
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sometimes I wonder why I get out of bed each morning ::) ... then I drop by
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Why oh why haven't I read this thread before (or for all I know, maybe I have). I've gone back a few pages and then moved forward and just got through with tears flowing down my cheeks from laughter. That and now I have to run to the loo because I'm about to lose control.
Gees, I thought I was getting Alzheimers - now I know that I might be ok, or that we are all getting it and we might chat forever without knowing we are demented.
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Some of us are regular contributors to this one Taylor.......me included. The ones that I do seem to be pretty mad. No wonder my family think I have lost the plot. ::)
Honeyb
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now I know that I might be ok, or that we are all getting it and we might chat forever without knowing we are demented.
:rofl: I think you could be on to something there Taylor!
Nel x
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I spoke to my best mate on Saturday. She told me that the next day her and her husband were off to their home in Portugal for two weeks. I told her to have a lovely time. We spoke for two hours. On Sunday I dutifully parcelled up her birthday card and present for her birthday on Tuesday. I made sure I made a special visit to the post office on my way into work on Monday so that it wouldn't be late. On Tuesday I texted a "Happy Birthday" to her. She responded but didn't mention the present and the card. "Did you get my card and present?" I texted back. "No" she replied "but do you even have our Portugal address?" Doh! I sent it to Wales completely forgetting that she was in Portugal even though it was only a day after talking to her that I parcelled it all up!
Taz x
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Himself dropped our evening meal on the floor :o . carefully carving the joint whole plate slipped off the work surface onto the floor, of course up-side down. I swore quietly, he swore loudly but we ate it with veg.; if I don't turn up during the week you'll know why ;D. All that table and work space and he still managed to balance the plate on the edge >:(.
I need to wash the floor in the mroning 'cos it's slippery where the meat landed ::) :-X
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hi all just found this thread and how ive laughed we were in a large car park in blackpool not so ago and i went to get the parking ticket from the machine simple nooo i walked back to the car in fits of laughter as i had just payed for a map of blackpool from the machine no parking ticket other half just shakes his head ;D
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I did the same as he did - dropped my lunch onto the floor by putting the plate too close to the edge of the work surface - now do I tell him when he gets back tonight ...... ???
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I used to leave the car parked in the same place in our small town and couldn't remember where I'd put it >:( I even phoned a friend to help me look for it ::). I forget names really easily these days.
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oh ladies, you have had tears rolling down my face :rofl:
LEFT A LADY IN COMPLETE AND UTTER SHOCK!
I mistook a lady that I worked for a long time ago. She was the spitting image of my mothers neighbour. This neighbour was an angel as she helped us so much when my mum was dying. We gave her my mums little dog ,as she loved it so much.
Now then, I came out of the dentist and walked over to boots to buy some paracetamol. I saw this woman turn round from the counter. I flung my arms around her and gave her a kiss. I asked, are you alone? she answered well I have the car in the car park [strange answer i thought] anyway she waited for me to get served. I then said to her, have you been slimming?, you have lost some weight!. She answered, no !. I just havnt been eating the same since I lost my husband .Now with that answer, my brain is saying, lost your husband, thats the first ive heard about it. After standing there puzzled for a while, I TOUCHED HER SHOULDER AND SAID . I hope you dont mind me saying, but wheres he gone? [knowing that the neighbours husband was alive and well] she answered with annoyance in her voice, he died 4 years ago!Still the penny did not drop !! I went on to say oh! I see. Well hows your little dog? She snapped , I HAVNT GOT A DOG!!!!! still the penny failed to drop for what seemed like forever.
Then in a blinding flash , oh my god ,you idiot! By this time she was stood in total and utter shock, I could tell that ,even she wasnt quite sure who she was :-\ .I apologised profusely. What an embarrasing moment that was. I laughed all the way home especialy about the fact that i had gone on to say , hows your little dog. :rofl:
Now in my defence lol. This woman is the spitting image of the neighbour ,but a little taller. She was wearing an identical coat and has a very similar voice. I had been thinking about my mum as I walked across the road . Do I get away with it? or should I seek help? ;D
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I was walking back from a local shop recently when I met up with, I thought, my friend's son with his baby in the pram and his dog on a lead. I said a very friendly, "Hi" and asked after the baby, to be told he's sleeping a lot better these days. We had a brief chat and I went on my way, suddenly thinking my friend's son seemed much thinner than he'd ever been, the baby was quite small for his age, and the dog had changed breed. A complete stranger! You're the first people I've owned up to on this one.
Jenny X
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Thankyou, I needed a laugh and this thread has plenty of them! If only I could remember my own latest anecdote to share... but my brain is total fuzz at the moment! LOL
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Oh Jenny... Alexia..... ;D..
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I found part of my dropped lunch this morning :o - in a jug inside a low cupboard ::) - dog now has a smile on his face ;D
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Since Himself retired I haven't touched the hoover thingy, went to use it just now and couldn't find the on/off button! :o
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Since Himself retired I haven't touched the hoover thingy, went to use it just now and couldn't find the on/off button! :o
CLKD - When did OH retire?
Are you meaning that you have been so busy with 'retirement' type things that you haven't been dong as much housework - resulting in you forgetting where the on/off button was?
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Yep, since May he's done the hoovery thingy so I had forgotten where the button was ;D
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Can't count the number of times I've put a tea bag in with my cereal, or put the sugar in the fridge and the milk in the cupboard. My favourite 'trick' at the moment is forgetting to actually turn the oven/washing machine/dishwasher on. I can stand and stare at it for a good five minutes before I work out what I've done - good job we can laugh about it ;D
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My speciality is to fill the kettle and not switch it on. Made quite a few cold cups of tea ;D
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Mine's filling the teapot with boiling water but no tea!
Taz x
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Mines adding coffee to OH's tea - he has tea, I have coffee, but sometimes he has the best of both! ;D
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:rofl: you do make me laugh CH.
silverlady x
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I make myself laugh too sometimes SL - unfortunately OH doesn't find it as funny ;D
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I do things like pouring boiling water in my orange juice instead of my mug and this morning I tried to drink out of a mug that just had a tea bag in the bottom, I thought it was my juice. My daughter just gives me one of her looks (she is 13) and says 'oh Mum ....' in that sort of 'oh dear you're losing it' way! ;D
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I've got one of those kettles that boils one cup at a time. Switched it on yesterday and walked away. On return found that I forgotten to put a cup underneath so water everywhere!! What a twit! lol x
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I have just found 2 packets of biscuits in the fridge! No need to ask who put them there? ;D
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I thought i would have a cup of tea and watch some TV, but when i went out the kitchen could not find the kettle.
On returning to the living room i found the kettle on top of the TV. Glad to know that i am not the only one doing silly things.
Pat
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Hi Pat, just thought I'd give you a friendly warning. please be careful! DON'T PUT THE TV ON TOP OF THE KETTLE!! ;D
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;D ;D ;D
silverlady x
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Johnson's baby shampoo instead of bubble bath :o
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Using hand soap on your toothbrush. The taste is what made me "wake up".....
Truly...'bout thought I'd laugh myself to death.....
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ohh no i raced down to chemist to hand in my pescription lady behind counter stood looking at me waiting and i had to tell her that i had come to get my perscription but had left it on side at home best of it was i it didnt even need to look in my bag as i knew i hadnt got it :sigh:
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Put the scissors away ... in the fridge :o
Why ? The fridge isn't even near the draw where I keep the scissors
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Walking down the street to collect the papers from the village shop earlier to find I had a pair of reading glasses in each hand ::) - hope it's not true that what one does on New Year's Eve one does the rest of the year! :o
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PHEW!
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I was in Tesco today and suddenly remembered the time when I bought something with cash and then asked for £10 Cashback. The checkout lady asked for my card and so I gave her my Clubcard but she said she wanted my debit card. I told her I had already paid but wanted some Cashback. I just couldn't understand why she wanted my card when I'd already paid >:( Why wouldn't she just give me my £10 Cashback. (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQNz8BmV9PVkhIgs7JLVciomh_ID_GHej482RFF6rC-KX94mdUhg)
It was quite some time before the penny dropped and I went all red and said "Oh Lord, I've been asking Tesco to give me £10 for free" ;D
ariadne xx
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I have had 2 good days ........... ???
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I was in Tesco today and suddenly remembered the time when I bought something with cash and then asked for £10 Cashback. The checkout lady asked for my card and so I gave her my Clubcard but she said she wanted my debit card. I told her I had already paid but wanted some Cashback. I just couldn't understand why she wanted my card when I'd already paid >:( Why wouldn't she just give me my £10 Cashback. (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQNz8BmV9PVkhIgs7JLVciomh_ID_GHej482RFF6rC-KX94mdUhg)
It was quite some time before the penny dropped and I went all red and said "Oh Lord, I've been asking Tesco to give me £10 for free" ;D
ariadne xx
I've done this before! It's funny how they aren't keen to give you cashback when you pay with cash :)
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Ha Ha - so pleased to hear I'm not the only one who's done that ;D
ariadne xx
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I had made lunch and put black pepper on it. That evening I was making dinner and wanted the black pepper. Looked in the cupboard but it wasn't where it should be. Thought I had left it out on the worktop but it wasn't there either, so gave up looking. The following morning when I was getting out the milk for breakfast, here was the black pepper sitting in the fridge door beside the milk. I think I must be getting blind as well as forgetful as I had opened the fridge several times the previous evening. My son thought it was hilarious.
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Looking for my glasses the other day only to find they were still on my face :)
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I tried to put a pair on: with a pair already in situ ;D
I *almost* poured boiling water into the coffee jar last week I don't know what stopped me tipping it! ::)
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I tried to switch off the bedroom light this morning: with the landing switch >:(
I couldn't remember which tap was cold or hot - we've lived here since the 1980s ..... had to ask Himself which was the cold tap - that was scarey as my mind was a complete blank :-\
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- that was scarey as my mind was a complete blank :-\
I can totally identify. Worse feeling ever when the brain does a complete 180 and slams the door on you! Nothing to draw from......
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blank, absolutely :o ........... struggle for words on occasions but this was completely different ........
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Been supermarket shopping tonight with hubby and started off well told OH stay there as one of the aisles was busy and I'd bring the goodies to him, then for some reason decided to fill another blokes trolley who was behind me :oops: It was a good few mins before I realised what I was doing he just smiled and said don't mind sharing a trolley if your paying. So glad he saw the funny side cos I was totally embarrassed and full of apologies and for once I didn't go red because of an hot flush ::)
Cazza xx
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Bette x
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I pinched the bottom of a man yesterday in a supermarket then turned round to make sure it *was* Himself ;D
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I pinched the bottom of a man yesterday in a supermarket then turned round to make sure it *was* Himself ;D
Hee hee. That reminds of the Spec Saver advert where she gets off the train and kisses the wrong man. ;D
LD I always seem to have theses memory blocks when I'm with my OH. When I'm alone I'm OK, well...ish.
I'm sure it's because I know he *expects* me to forget, so my nerves get the better of me. >:(
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As my eyesight is deteorating I need ready readers, I've lost count of the amount of pairs I've bought as I'm always losing them, I am often seen with pair on chain around my neck, pair on my head and the pair I'm actually wearing, husband always says 'good job you don't need sunglasses on as well ' .
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I left mine in a supermarket on Tuesday :-\ - they were handed in thank goodness
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Been supermarket shopping tonight with hubby and started off well told OH stay there as one of the aisles was busy and I'd bring the goodies to him, then for some reason decided to fill another blokes trolley who was behind me :oops: It was a good few mins before I realised what I was doing he just smiled and said don't mind sharing a trolley if your paying. So glad he saw the funny side cos I was totally embarrassed and full of apologies and for once I didn't go red because of an hot flush ::)
Cazza xx
Cazza, hubby wandered off once when we were in a supermarket-he had the trolley with some shopping in and I had an armful of stuff. He said he wouldn't be long so I joined a queue. When hubby finally reached me there was quite a queue and the woman behind me gave me a right earbashing. Said it was completely out of order to bring a trolley of shopping into the queue when she thought I only had an armful of stuff and that she had been standing in the queue for ages. I said I had been standing in it even longer! She made me feel really bad and so I just said huffily if she thought it was so bad, she better go in front of me and she did!
ariadne xx
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I was on the computer using the mouse when I had a text on my iPhone.
I had to go away and find something before I replied back.
I went back to the computer,picked up the mouse and tried to send a text before I realised it wasnt my phone.Derrrrrr!! :-\
My daughter thought this was hilarious!
"You wait til I tell all my mates" she said. :-*
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I can relate to the glasses stories. I had mine before Christmas and then put away the Christmas decorations. I haven't seen them since so I can only assume they are in one of the boxes. I'm trying to pluck up the courage to pull everything out to look. In the meantime I've been using the cheap reading glasses. At this rate it will be next Christmas before they turn up.
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Well its not just us Ladies that do stupid things- Hubby drying pots half way through decides to do some other things then comes back to finish the drying and he couldn't find the T towel. So we started to retrace his steps but no, not to be found anywhere. Later on went to make a cuppa and found the T towel in the fridge :o ;D Off course its my fault he said I'm sending him loopy - what meeeee ::)
Cazza xx
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I excelled myself yesterday ::)
Himself cut me half a Pakistani mango the day before and put the remains plus stone on a plate into the fridge. Apparently: he got the remains out for his lunch yesterday but I saw a plate + stone and not realising that there was fresh mango under the stone ........ :whist: put it into the bin :o
He walked backwards and forwards from kitchen to lounge about 3 times muttering I'm sure I had a mango and eventually I twigged :-X
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I searched for my house phone for ages, I was cursing quite loudly and just could not find it and then suddenly realised I had it pressed against my ear with my shoulder !!
Have filled the tea caddy with sugar on a few occasions lately.
This morning completely forgot how to copy and paste
Nelliedee x
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I was unable to read figures recently, I was ringing through an Order for clothing and couldn't get my mind round the code numbers >:(
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He looks more like my late Uncle every day :o
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Went to the cash machine yesterday and put my card in.
It said which language so I pressed the union jack and thought hmmm
they must have changed the machine.
I put my pin in and then the amount I wanted.
It then said cannot give you cash from here :-\
Errr! looked up at the sign on the machine but it was the same one I always use.
Went to put my card in again and realised it was my sainburys nectar reward card ::)
My daughter thought this was hilarious.
Why do I always do these Stupid Things when I'm with my daughter.
She has another story to tell her mates,about her meno brained mum :-\
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I've just been to lunch with my work colleagues. Had to leave early as I had a meeting, which i told everyone. One of my colleagues has just returned and I said to her "Oh I'm sorry did I forget to wait for you? She looked at me in an odd expression and said no you had a meeting :o She said you are loosing the plot :o
Mac
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Went to the post office yesterday to post a parcel.
Took my purse out of my bag and put it under my arm,while the assistant was weighing the parcel.
When she came back I was rooting around in my bag looking for my purse and getting anxious because I couldn't find it.
I said to the lady" I think my purse must have fallen out in the car"
She looked at me and pointed to my arm.
I felt such a fool but being of a similar age she understood and we ended up having a laugh about it.
She said that when she was younger and ladies use to talk about doing these "stupid things" she thought what a load of rubbish. ;D
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I was going out yesterday, I was stood by the car pressing the open door button, I could hear the car clicking to open but nothing was happening. Several minutes later I realised I had my sons car keys and it was his car that was opening. (I wouldn't mind but I've done it before so you'd think I'd have realised sooner). ::)
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My favourite one is trying to open the front door using the car remote! ::)
Bette x
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Picking up the TV remote to answer the 'phone ::)
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;D CLKD :-\
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At least we're all in this together :P
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Cant believe what I did today...went to the dentist to have a crown refitted as it fell out last week, sat in the chair, dental nurse mixed cement...dentist said right pass me your tooth so I can clean it and check for fitting...you've guessed it I forgot to take my tooth with me...I was so embarrassed I couldn't get out of the surgery quick enough :-[
I was charged £17-50 for my embarrassment and given another appointment for refitting next wk.
It wasn't till i got home that i remembered putting my crown in a safe place...but i cant remember for the life of me were that safe place is.
Cant bring myself to tell anyone at home because they already think I'm gaga :beat:
Hope my secrets safe with with you ladies.
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Picking up the TV remote to answer the 'phone ::)
Its not just us ... my brother took the remote control to work in his pocket instead of his phone ;D
ariadne xx
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I think I've experienced quite a lot of the things on this list already!
On one of the sunny days last week I went to the supermarket. I put on my reading glasses, without which I can do nothing, these days. Only when I'd done the shopping, checked out, got back in the car and looked for my sunglasses did I realise they were on the top of my head.
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Welcome to our World ;D
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Yep - par for the Course?
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This morning I wanted to do a quick dish wash before sorting through the laundry which would have been washed and on the line by now: had I NOT turned the dishwasher to a 65 mins cycle >:(
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;D ;D Think I've done quite a few of the things on here too. ;D ;D
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I have done the double glasses thing gafais lol
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Because I suffer badly with rhinitis at night I've been taking an anti-histamine around 8.30 p.m.. A couple of nights I have forgotten to take my AD and beta-blocka ........ so began the meds at 10.00 p.m. and then laid awake for hours waiting for side-effects to begin because I *was* sore under my rib cage .........
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Went to the cash machine and walked away without the money >:( such a prat!!!!
Mac
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How far did you get before you realised?
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Hi CLKD
I was at the supermarket checkout!!! Went back to the machine and of course it was gone. :(
I was on my way home from a weekend camping with the scouts so that could explain my dopey state. :D
Mac
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:o .......... such a shame. Maybe someone handed it in or did you ask?
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If there was no one else around who stole it then the machine will take the money back in. You should check your account Mac and see if you were lucky.
Honeyb
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Hi
I was so embarrassed that I didn't go back into the store to check if anyone had handed it in. Checked the account today and its been taken. >:(
Lesson learned.
Macxx
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Shame .............. so ring the Store in case it's been handed in?
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Does the store have a CCTV camera?
May see who took your money..
TM
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Oh Dear!
Yesterday I went to serve the rice from the saucepan to plate, only to discover I hadn't even put the rice on to cook! :(
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I would give the bank a call Mac as its not credited back to your account immediately.
Worth a phone call I would think.
Honeyb
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Thank you ladies. Will give the bank a call. Just feel such a twat :(
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Popped into Tesco for a loaf, newspaper and cakes yesterday morning before work. Didn't use a basket as only wanted the 3 things so carried them to the self service checkouts. When I went to scan the loaf it didn't have a sticker so I had to wait for help from the assistant who was helping the man next to me. At first she was going to call someone then she asked me if I could remember how much the loaf was. I could, so she just entered the price for me and I paid. She asked me if I had seen the new "Scan as you Shop" area they have just installed where you pick up a scanner and scan your shopping as you go round then pay at special tills. We had a conversation about them and the man at the next till seemed really interested too.
I said Bye and walked out of the store and through the car park back to my car. I noticed a few "admiring" glances and thought I must be looking Ok. When I got back to my car and into the drivers seat, I saw my reflection in the dashboard.
Emblazoned on my left breast pocket was a large loaf barcode label for £1.00!
Surely the checkout assistant MUST have seen it - we chatted for quite a while. Or even the man at the next till - although he could hardly reach out and remove it could he?
When I told the girls at work they said I should have scanned my breast pocket.... "Unexpected item in bagging area" ;D
So much for the admiring glances - I DID feel a nitwit.
ariadne xx (worth much more than £1.00)
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Mac.. Did exactly the same thing yesterday!! walked away from cash machine without the cash, and only realised when went to pay at till in supermarket. ran out to see if by chance it was there, but no..... i was so upset. it wasnt alot of cash but i might as well have stood in the street ripping it up. my memory used to be so good.!! tonight I was talking to my daughter, and then watched the tv for a few minutes, and then I looked over at her and I literally couldnt recall what we were just talking about!! I said this to her, and she looked at me like i was an alien! I was quite worried. Hope it is the hormones and nothing else. I keep thinking of that character in coronation street that had Alzimers. It was quite disturbing. And I'm really not trying to be flippant.
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I went to a French Class this morning (see new thread) and when we got into face to face conversation my mind went completely blank ....... now do I tell the Tutor that I am menopausal or do I let her work this out for herself ;D - I used to go completely blank in mental arithmetic too :-\ (and no don't want a thread on that - yet )
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I cant do arithmetic either but I dont think I can blame it on the meno because it started when I was about 6 ;D ;D
Honeyb
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Me neither HB. I was useless at school and not much better now. When I was a teenager, my friend and I went for after school jobs at a local supermarket. They tried me on the till and I couldn't work out the change (this was before tills that did it for you) And if someone said "Do you want the 50p" it would completely throw me! They took me off the tills and put me onto shelf stacking ;D Now shelves I could stack!
Definitely not meno related for me either.
ariadne xx
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I can't do sums. I'm lucky in that the Staff at our village shop are aware and will help me out ........ some days I can add it up others it's like looking at Lire ::)
If I can write down coloumns of numbers and have plenty of time ...........
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I can do money ;D ;D.
DD was applying for a temporary job and had to do an aptitude test before she was allowed to fill in the actual application form. There were maths questions. I am afraid she takes after me in the maths department and it took two of us with a calculator :o
She is at uni but got there without maths....this is for a shop assistant job.....heavens what next.
She has 8 standard grades. 4 Highers and three advanced highers ....what more do they want.
Honeyb
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Unbelievable isn't it Honeybun?
My daughter has an Honours degree in business law and the only job she could get was in the stockroom in a large fashion store retailers.
Mind you her aptitude test was to see if she could hang clothes on hangers which I'm surprised she passed because she can't seem to do it at home!
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I have just thrown my HRT tablet into the teapot insted of the tea bag... ???
TM
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I went outside in the howling wind last night with a bag of rubbish to put in my large wheely bin. I then got into the car, but couldn't find by house keys anywhere. I got out the car, the door nearly blew off! I was walking around the car and looking on the ground for the keys. I then realised I'd thrown them in the bin with the rubbish, and had to more or less dive into the bin to get them. :-\
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Oh I've done that too. And leaning into the bin wondered how long I'd be locked inside if I fell, before DH realised that I was missing ::)
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Did you drink the HRT ............ instead of the cuppa?
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Ha Ha ..no CKLD i quickly got tablet out of T pot, was a bit wet but then put t bag and water in pot and made my cuppa took tablet and dunked my chocolate digestive biscuit yum. yum.. i love choccy bikkies dunked in tea.
TM
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Today I made a cup of tea and opened the fridge door to put the kettle in! :-\
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Today I made a cup of tea, then carried a side plate and the 'kettle' into the lounge :o
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I agree with Dawn French when she recently said - 'the unfortunate thing about the menopause is that it steals your memory' !
My husband asked me the other night while he was lying in bed why I could not remember which lightswitch at the top of the stairs turned off the lights on the staircase? After all he said, we have lived here for 16 years ! he has NO idea >:(
My Dad (in his 90's) quite easily recalls stories from when he was a young boy - I struggle to remember details about 2 days ago !- Looking forward to be able to do that if I reach 90!
Does anyone else have experience this recall problem? Or am I blaming menopause in error ;D
Rebecca
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Age related.
I stood in our house recently wondering which light switch to turn off for the landing lights upstairs ........ and we've lived here for over 24 years ::) - and I couldn't remember which was the hot and which was the cold tap in our kitchen sink ....... >:(
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At work this morning I had asked the Accounts department for a petty cash slip for some petrol money for an errand I had run. I filled it out but didn't take it into Accounts. Later, I found a £5 note on my desk and was asking colleagues if they knew who had put it there. No-one did but the lady who sits next to me (my age) said she was going into Accounts and would ask if they had put it there in anticipation of receiving my petty cash slip.
She came back and said No, they hadn't. We pondered for a few more minutes on who could have put it there until she suddenly said "Oh, I put it there remember ...... when I asked if you would get me some sandwiches from the sandwich van"
We both fell about laughing. The thought that she had been helping me discover who had put it there when all along both of us ought to have remembered, was just so funny.
ariadne xx
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OMG, what an afternoon! Was supposed to be meeting my friend in Christchurch for the Xmas markets. Left my mobile at home. Got on the train, couldn't open the door at Christchurch, ended up at the next stop afterwards, then had to get on the train and come back to Christchurch! Looked everywhere for her. Came home. She thought I was on the next train after that so went looking for me. Got tied up with Santa and his reindeer, then couldn't get through the crowds. Going to drive over there now to see her!! ::)
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You got tied up with Santa :o
or your friend ;)
did you get together eventually .........
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I've done so many stupid things this week, I wouldn't know where to start....think I'm panicking about my forties nearing their end and going into the dreaded f-i-f-t-i-e-s :o :o
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Yes but you will be fabulous at 50. :madeyes:
...And yes we met up for a drink in the end! :)
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Chatting to a friend last week. He told me that he'd found a dead bird in his garden and asked if we fed them (there is apparently a disease going about that he was going to warn me of)? Well, I couldn't think, for some reason I thought he was talking about bird nesting boxes :-\ so I said no, then I thought, oh hold on he said feeding, that's bird feeders then not nesting boxes so I then had to say that yes, we did actually feed birds ..... I felt a bit of a dork! Talk about brain woolliness!!
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::) ......... I try to pause for breath to engage brain before I speak but it doesn't often work >:(
Remembering peoples' names has become a nightmare .......
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Did he say which type of bird it was Lucky Stone?
Taz x
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I love this thread. I feel so at home ;D
One of my worst meno failings is LOSING THINGS. On another thread I was recommended a book on IBS which I duly ordered from Amazon. It arrived, I scanned through it to work out which form of IBS I have. Put book down and havent seen it since.....
I struggle at work as we have so much new information thrown at us on a regular basis, starting to feel I am not fit for the world of work :(
Would HRT help? I am just on vagifem. I've only recently started getting hot flushes and they are very minor. I'm 54 and havent had a period since February and prior to that none for 11 months.
Are all you forgetful ladies on HRT? It would be interesting to know.
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I got out of bed this morning :-\
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;D ;D ;D CLKD
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It was a chaffinch, Taz. Apparently they get a problem with swallowing and can be seen with their beak in the air, looking like they are choking. I think they eventually die of starvation. Luckily, we haven't seen it in our garden to date but if you do, you have to disinfect all the bird feeders and the table to try and prevent the spread.
I am constantly looking for my glasses which I take off and put down. Then I can't see to find them because I am not wearing them ......
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My daughter is threatening to buy me a string thing for my glasses. I take them off and loose them all the time. It drives everyone....including me...up the wall.
Honeyb
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I wear contact lenses for work and to go out then glasses in the house, but I see close up things better without my glasses - so I take them off and perch them on my head. Then I either search around for them or go to bed with them still on my head!
In answer to your question, Milliemoo - I'm not on HRT. 8) (Just noticed the Christmas smilie and had to use it!)
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Lucky Stone - they have this disease http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpingbirds/health/sickbirds/greenfinches.aspx
RSPB or the British for Ornithology like to be informed if you find any dead or dying birds with this disease in your gardens. It helps them track the progress across the country.
Taz x
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I went into the 99p shop, picked up an item, took it to the desk and asked how much it was !! DOH...... It was the 99p shop ::)
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I have proffered a pound coin in a pound shop and been told it was a discount shop not a pound shop. I suggested (sweetly) they should have a look at the sign above the shop which clearly stated it was a pound store.
My comments were not well received and I left without said item.
I was in one of "those" kinds of moods where you take no prisoners. ;D ;D
honeyb
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;D I emptied sugar over the work surface earlier instead of into the jar
Had I been wearing my glasses I probably might possilbly have seen the jar >:( ........ then I needed the glasses in order to clean up split sugar ::)
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;D Just fancied a humble boiled egg. Anyway, cracked it open and it was rock hard! Realised i had boiled a hard boiled egg which I had done a few days ago!!
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pixie - did you eat the twice boiled egg?
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Hi Limpy, good to see you back! No I didn't eat it because it tasted a bit funny! :o
I put another egg on to boil, and that one was underdone, but I ate it. Had any mishaps with lamb recently? ;D
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yesterday I thought we were out of biscuits but couldnt face braving sainsburys again after my trip on friday. searched through cupboard in vain. Really wanted a biscuit or two :(
Baked some rock buns this morning (low sugar, olive spread, spelt flour, so they are as healthy as I can stomach)
Then I discovered some biscuits in another tin. sadly they are a bit stale but dunking does improve them a lot :)
After making tea and putting a couple of biscuits on a plate I replaced the milk in the fridge, along with the biscuit tin. ::)
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Hi Limpy, good to see you back! No I didn't eat it because it tasted a bit funny! :o
I put another egg on to boil, and that one was underdone, but I ate it. Had any mishaps with lamb recently? ;D
Hi Pixie - Glad you avoided that egg
Haven't had any incidents with lamb recently, but there was a close run thing with a chicken last week...... ;D
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I had a lens fall out of my reading glasses 2 weeks ago and dropped the 2nd pair of glasses yesterday: can't find the 3rd pair so am stuck with last year's prescription >:(
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CLKD How about contact lenses? ;D
Limpy, what happened with the chicken?
Millemoo, I'm always putting the wrong things in the fridge
I was talking nonsense to mum earlier, kept forgetting what I was saying mid sentence and going off in a different direction, get words all back to front too. She looked a bit baffled >:(
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Pixie, nothing fortunately, but there was a definite swerve, towards the fridge....
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Can't bear the thought of anything in my eyes :o
Himself went into the garden earlier to prune the apple trees, then came in to go to the loo ::) :rofl: I told him to sit down ;)
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My colleague who is 50, said she rang me last night, but spoke to her husband's boss's wife in error, who has the same name. She couldn't figure out what had happened to my voice! :-X
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Ah that's classic, I can imagine her confusion all too well :-\
My latest thing is putting stuff down then not being able to "see" it....maybe a trip to the opticians in the New Year..
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Won't help Millie, happens to me all the time, even when I've got my lens in ;D
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As an aside - I took my 3 pairs of reading glasses into Boots Optician area and they were repaired and cleaned for FREE :-* - so must remember NOT to put them onto the top of the poultry run/car/compost bin ::)
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I think I'm losing it. :( I got into the passenger seat when I came out of church today. I was driving and on my own. Just hope nobody saw me!!!
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Oooops I have done that in the petrol station. I then tried to look as if I meant to do it and climb into the drivers side. I felt a right plonker ;D ;D
Honeyb
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I lost my mums spare keys a couple of weeks ago. I thought I had thrown them away in the wheely bin, when I was bringing a bag of mums shopping and rubbish from the car to the door. Anyway today, I was going indoors, my neighbour was puffing away outside, said - "Are those the keys you lost hanging up on the branch of that tree?" and yes, they were her rusty keys! I don't know how they got there, but, I must've dropped them on the ground whilst carrying all those bags, and someone hung them up there, like a xmas decoration ;D
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Bin man with a sense of humour perhaps? :)
At least you have got them back
Perhaps the bin men are looking for a christmas box....
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I keep getting side tracked in the house - meant to put knickers in washing basket, but came downstairs with them in my hand - easily solved though, I just put them in washing machine instead. I don't know how many times I go upstairs for something, do half a dozen other things whilst up there, come back and then remember I never got thing I went for :whist:
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I go round and round, I begin one chore then spot another which needs doing then forget the first ...........
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Making dinner tonight, I was meant to be putting sausages in frying pan and oven chips in oven - you've guessed - tried to do it other way round :o
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Tried to put one pair of reading glasses on - then found I had the other pair already inplace ???
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Toasted a tea towel under the grill and set off a mini bonfire in the kitchen last night. Managed to toast bread this morning though!
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Turned on the TV this morning. No signal probably because of the snow.
Stood looking at the blank screen thinking perhaps we had a power cut.
The kettle was on and the screen said no signal.
Duh
Honeyb
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:rofl: :rofl:
Taz :bighug:
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I sent DH looking for the calender yesterday morning - as far as the dining room, then realised it was on the settee next to me; not only that but I had my hand on it ........... ???
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I did a cracker yesterday, couldn't believe it - I had blown my nose and had the hanky in my hand and went to make a cuppa. I meant to throw the hanky in the bin, but realised it was in the cup and I was pouring boiling water on it! :o :o
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;D :clapping:
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Fell over on the way to the bus stop and then boarded and zapped oyster card only to be told by driver i was on the wrong side of rd and his bus route ended at the very next stop ;)
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:-[ :sigh:
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Oh dear ???
Having spent most of the day horizontal I've not had the opportunity to make too many mistakes so far.
I do however seem to have an awful lot of cottage cheese in the fridge ???
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Milliemoo - I've made a lot of my mistakes from a horizontal position :lol:
Cottage cheese - sorry not one of my favourite things!
Taz x
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:clapping:
Nice one Taz!
Me too ;D
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My first thoughts ;) - I used to love cottage cheese but can't face it these days ::)
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Whilst cleaning kitchen left top cupboards open
DH came inside, bent to take something from bottom cupboards and didn't look above his head :o
DH now has a bruise :-X
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That sort of thing is normal in my house CLKD - I wouldn't class that as a meno thing - I've always left cupboard doors open and my shoes just where I've taken them off.
My husband left for work this morning just before me. On my way to work I was surprised to see him coming the other way heading back home. When I got to work I texted him to make sure he was ok. He replied "Yep. Decided that wearing slippers with my suit was not a good look" ;D ;D ;D
Taz x
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His or yours ......... stepped into slippers on the way out the door without looking ???
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I haven't got any slippers and if I did I don't think my size 4's would fit his size 10's ;D No he had forgotten to take his slippers off and put his shoes on before going to work. He's done it before going to golf. It's not just a meno problem.
Taz x
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;D
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;D ;D
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::) ........... had on one pair of specs, tried to put the other pair on top .......... ::)
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I went out a couple of months ago, wandering round Asda wondering why I was getting double takes - did a quick bogie check, all clear - no toilet roll hanging out of the back of the trousers. Strange, I thought. Off to Matalan, walking towards myself in the mirror I see I have two completely different long boots on, one grey suede, one beige. How I didn't see that myself while walking around, or even getting dressed I will never know.
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My hubby went to work one day with one brown shoe and one black one, just to add insult to injury one was a slip on the other a lace up.
Why he did not notice. ::)
So it's not always meno.
Honeyb
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Tried t feed the dogs their lunch instead of their usual cornflakes for breakfast today ;D
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Is there any hope - didn't the dogs wolf down their dinner then ask for their flakes ............ ;D
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Caught myself after putting dog biscuit in the bowls. Tonight just tried to eat my dinner with 2 knifes ;D
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ive tipped half a jar of coffee into the sugar so carefully as well, making sure i didnt spill any i really annoy myself at times ;D
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;D ;D
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...it's like when you take ages stitching a hem, tongue out concentrating, turn it right side out to discover you have stitched the hem to the leg of the jeans you were hemming, or worse, to the jeans you are wearing!
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I'm terrible for putting things 'somewhere safe' then can't find them for days - not helped that we've just moved and stuff still in boxes - which boxes are anyones guess ::)
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I pulled a door shut on my foot yesterday :o :-\ .......... it nipped :sigh:
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Talking about stupid things....well, I just had to post this ;D
Sitting in our caravan on a new site - first ever visit as our usual CC site was full - and hubby went off for his shower. Five minutes later he came back, red faced, red eyed, panting, carrying his underwear and minus his toilet kit. Apparently he was just working up a good lather with the shampoo when it suddenly struck him there was an awful lot of pink sports bags and trainers in the changing rooms. With mounting horror, he realised yes, he was indeed in the ladies showers, so in a complete panic he turned off the water, wrapped round the towel and with shampoo still running down the sides of his head did a very Mr.Bean like exit - peering round curtains and tiptoe-ing down tiled corridors clutching his clothes. He said he just managed to grab his y-fronts off the peg cos he stretched his (big hairy) arm full out!! :D
Pulled his jeans on in the corridor and bolted
I had to go back in for the toilet bag
Me, meno brain?? i could get at least a month's ribbing out of this!!
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:rofl: ...... well, we *are* in Europe now ::) - most places are multi-sexed ..........
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;D this so sounds like me many times
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I have had 2 days when I haven't done anything stupid :o - can't last can it ::)
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Nope not if I am anything to go by.
;D
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::) didn't last long: went on a walk with DH and I wore slip on sandals :bang: :bang: :bang: if I walked out of them once ::) and me with a bad back and sore rib cage 'un all :(
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CLKD - don't worry, you won't get to wear sandals for much longer no doubt with our great british weather!
Micky - your post beginning this thread about driving away leaving your hubby standing in the road makes me laugh so much everytime I read it as I can just imagine doing the same thing. I should read it every time I feel down. Sorry you were upset at the dishes bit though.
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I dropped my mobile into a mug of cold tea earlier ........ think it's died :'(
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Depending on what type it is you may be able to save it CLKD. Take the battery and sim out and dry them as much as possible with a soft cloth. Sit everything on paper towels and then leave them to dry somewhere warm such as an airing cupboard. May take a few days. Will send a pm with a link.
Taz
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If you put your mobile in a bag of rice then it absorbs the moisture.
Honeyb
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I tried that after mine fell out pocket into bath when I was cleaning it, but it was goosed.
Stupid things today - searching handbag for car keys when they were in my hand :o :o
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sending DS out to car for OH's birthday card which I thought I'd left on back seat - it was in my bag!
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On Friday, I forgot to put my bra on. Didn't realise till I was on the train on my way to work. :-[
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So that's why I reversed into my husband's motorbike clearly parked behind my car..........am I safe to be let loose? :P
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Years ago, I was staying with a French family in Normandy when my hostess (who was probably about 50) gave me a cup of after-dinner mint tea with salt in it, instead of sugar. Mm-hmm. Peut-etre le meno........... (She was mortified, poor soul!)
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Hope your French was good enough to explain?
(DH begins his classes tomorrow after the Summer break ......... not that he is stupid, the topic triggered the thought ...... )
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Luckily it was, CLKD, also greatly helped by the face I pulled after the first mouthful!
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How is the moblie, did it survive?
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;D it does seem less grumpy ::) and still works, albeit slower ........... :thankyou: - no excuse for getting another then :P
I started to unload the washing yesterday - wondered why the socks weren't clean .......... have you guessed, didn't put the machine on so they hadn't been round and round and .......... ::)
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Oh well at least the phone is okay-ish ;D
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....... ish suits me ......... 'C' is coming ;)
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Okay - the other night I was running the bath; Classic FM was gently purring away in the corner and all was well with the world. I got ready then I turned round to get in - no water in the bath, despite taps running furiously - what on earth had I done? Yes, you guessed it - I'd put the hair-trapping thingy into the plughole, instead of the plug.............
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::) ......... I ran water to a depth of 2/3" into our bath recently but the boiler hadn't been on >:(
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I bought some perfume from the duty free shop at the airport last week.
I spent ages trying to find a new fragrance & finally decided on Do**e & G - it smelt really nice.
There were 2 sizes to buy that were side by side on the shelf, so I bought the smaller bottle.
I get home & opened the box & I had only bought the bl**dy deodorant stick. :o :o
Rather expensive deodorant me thinks.
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Very posh and fragrant arm pits though
;D ;D
Honeyb
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I aint putting it on my armpits, no one will smell it otherwise- I am putting it on my wrists instead HB. ;D ;D
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The deoderant is often just as good as the perfume, I wish they all made one to go with the perfumes, so don't feel bad, I think you found a bargain :) :)
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DH had his specs on his head and another pair to read with ::)
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I feel whoozy this morning :-\ - didn't take evening meds .......
So twice I have walked up stairs to the computer, because I wanted to find an e-mail address from a year ago. OK so far, but now I've got here: twice: and can't remember the person whom I need to contact >:( :'(. I also need to snail mail someone and keep forgetting .......... chores are taking up time this morning and I need to find the press item for the snail mail and can't be bothered to search :-[
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Do it tomorrow CLKD. Which meds did you miss?
Taz x
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ADs and Beta-blocka which I take each evening.
Remembered - found the e-mail addy and sent the message ::)
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Just cooked pizza without removing the cardboard backing. Very difficult to cut with the pizza rolling cutter thingy.😕
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;D <hands over plate > ..........
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Had a bit of a problem with piles last weak >:(
So I bought some cream to soothe them. ;)
Put the cream in the bathroom ready to use that evening after my shower................ next to the tube of toothpaste ::) ::)
Yep very nearly... yes I did... got as far as squeezing the tube, thought "hello" that smells minty - hang on a minute .
;D ;D
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That would have nipped Cazi ;D ::)
Mind you it could have been a wonder cure. Don't clean your teeth with the pile cream will you.
;D
Honeyb
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;D believe me HB, both tubes are now very well apart ;D ;D
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If you ever decide to try it and it works then please let me know ;D.
I always have to tell OH what bottle is what in the shower as he can't see without his glasses on. I thought his hair (what's left of it ) was looking a bit unwashed. It was not until he complained that the new shampoo wouldn't foam that I realised he was using conditioner. ;D
Honeyb
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Last evening I spent 2 hours gaming on the lap top, which caused my head/neck to feel all woozy for hours afterwards >:( - note to self, no more gaming however good it might be for my brain :-\
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I did laugh when I heard this.
My brother in law lost his glasses yesterday. He retraced his steps going from shops to petrol station to my mother's.
I was on the phone to my sister when he returned home saying he had had no luck. He wears a cap in the winter and took it off and slapped it down on the kitchen table. Guess what fell out of his hat....yep his glasses ;D
He had been hunting for hours and they had been tucked inside the flap of his cap which had been on his head all the time.He can see the funny side now but at the time.... ;D ;D
Honeyb
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Microwaved my porridge with the metal spoon still in the bowl.
Some serious sparks flew about.
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The other day I forgot the pin number to my bank card at the grocery store. I have had the same number for 20 years! It was humiliating!! Tried the pin 3 times before a freeze was put on my card because they thought it was stolen. Had to go to the bank to reactivate it. Darn memory problems!
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These days I don't know if I am having blonde moments or it's the menopause !!!! :-\
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I'm not blonde.....so it must be menopause!!! ;D
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I'm on HRT (recently increased) but when I'm tired, I'm madder than ever. I informed my neighbour that the builder had asked him to text him his no, as he (builder) had reset his phone and eliminated all his 'connections' - I meant contacts. Sounds innocuous, but it bothers me.
I live up 55 stairs, so it's a big deal if I forget something. I still do, but now have a post-it on the door saying KEYS, WALLET, PHONE ;D
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Where would we be without Post-its ;D
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This is another one ……….
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for reassurance ;)
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I put on oven gloves to open the fridge door today ... well I was cooking the Sunday roast & I needed a glass of wine to get me through the ordeal.... ok I just got a bit confused..... :drunk:
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am I allowed to laugh ;D
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If we don't laugh, we will all end up in a heap...... ;D
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If I laugh I'll end up in a heap with damp ;D :o
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Too true....... ;)
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This morning I switched the shower on too fast :o - water was hitting the cubicle and spraying over the top, DH had to get a chair and push the on/off switch with the back scrubbing brush ;D
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Hi , the brain fog is a nightmare! I have to write pretty much everything down, even sitting her typing I sometimes forget how to spell the words!! forgot where I parked my car at the supermarket and burst into tears, also forgot the name of a vegetable I was peeling, all very scary, not sure if worse since taking HRT as have only been on it for 10 days! :-\
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Oh I have whole conversations where I'm using the wrong words - but people still seem to understand, at least they don't run off screaming :D and DH is the same ::)
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Put an egg into the microwave 10 mins ago, ****ed the shell first ...... however ::) - now off to clean the glass etc.. :whist:
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I recently bought a juice extractor and used it for the first time the other day. I'd put loads of carrots through it but was getting no juice - I thought the thing was faulty till I realised I hadn't removed the little plastic cap on the spout. ::)
It got very messy when I did - carrot juice everywhere! The cap has now been consigned to the back of a drawer.
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Yuk ;D
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On my way to the bathroom I opened the wardrobe door in the bedroom rather than going across the landing :o
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Could have been exiting, CKLD - you might have found Narnia! ;D
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:rofl: :rofl: one very wet lion though ……...
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Left my car key and mobile outside for 3 nights - and it's rained heavily. Now drying out on the windowsill! ::) will my SIM card still work?
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The SIM card might be ok if dried.
Not sure whether the little slot/pocket that it goes into will have dried out though.
Best leave the whole thing to dry for as long as possible.
Good Luck.
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Take the SIM card and the battery out and put them and the phone in a bag of rice. Put the bag somewhere warm, inside ;D and leave them for a couple of days.
Honeyb
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:thankyou: ...... bought a new one ::) - what do you all do with your 'old' mobiles?
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Send them to Mazuma.com :)
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My phone is machine washable. Left it in my jeans pocket, but was alerted by the clunking noise. I took it apart and left it to dry in the airing cupboard. Took a few days, but no ill effects, but very clean. ;)
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I did drop this 1 into a cuppa last year and it survived. Sadly 2 days of rain and sun = humidity which seems to have done for the SIM card :(
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Emptied dish-washer. Trouble was ……… ::) I hadn't set it to do a cycle ;D - only noticed when I was putting crockery away :o ……….. so had to back-track to remember what had gone into the cupboard ...
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Had to join in here :D,driving down a main road the other day,i was wondering why there were so many cars in a long line parked close to the pavement to my left,as usualy you only see the odd one or two parked up.so driving carefully round them and narrowly missing a car coming from the other direction on the other side of the quite narrow road :o..i was wondering why the driver and passanger were looking at me in such a shocked way!......whenl i suddenly realised that none of the cars were "parked" at all...it was just a long que at the traffic lights....... ::)i then had to "overtake them all and try and find a gap to pull in in front of someone...i could feel everyones eyes on me wondering what the hell i was doing!...ground ..and swallowing up come to mind!
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I hope a motor insurer isn't reading this - they'll put a clause in disclaiming all responsibility for menopausal women!!!
Taz x ;D
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Where there not signs of traffic lights? If I'm in an un-expected queue I put my hazard lights on to avoid being rear-ended.
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Taz2 that's not as funny as it sounds. I stopped driving out of choice for a while as I felt I couldn't be trusted on the road with other drivers. I'm better now.
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I knew when I wasn't safe to d rive. I took myself 'off' the road for 3 months and not 1 of our neighbours noticed that my car remained on the drive :'(
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Tabbycat - I did exactly the same .
When I was about 28, it ain't anything to do with meno.
Luckily it was on a Sunday, way before shopping was easy on a Sunday.
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I agree that if we don't feel safe behind the wheel then we should stop driving but I'm not sure how people who live in rural areas would then get to work :-\ I think that sleepiness at the wheel affects men too so it might not be down to the menopause but due to other things too - stress particularly can affect energy levels greatly. I'm glad you can now drive again babyjane.
Taz x
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no !the que wa sso long a :(and there a kind of bend in the road so you could see that far down!i just hadnt...the road is usually pretty traffic free so unusual to have a que like that...(me thinks the lady doth protest too much?...maybe?lol) i dont usualy ever feel like a sketchy driver so hopefully just a one off???hopefully...
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;D (thanks goodness for GOOGLE )
"Hamlet:
"Madam, how like you this play?
"Queen:
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks. . "
Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–230
I was on ABs which made me really really tired so I knew I wasn't safe to drive. I had by then stopped working away from home.
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yes so am I Taz2 but only on familiar roads in places I know. I would not risk driving in a strange place on my own, maybe if someone was with me. I just don't seem to be as efficient as driving the car, watching the road as well as finding my way around nowadays. As for the sat nav I find the robotic voice so distracting especially when the cow moos after a long period of silence!
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Whichever GPS do you use ;D - we have had 2 models in recent years, better than my droaning on because I'm not sure which way we are going :-X …...
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haha excuse my typos ,i am on my phone and its being doolally on the forum!i think its having menopause too!.
the lady doth protest too much
yes of course i knew it was "something" like that ! ;-)
I dont think im at the stagewhere i need to stop driving....not yet anyway..
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Apparently this is mis-quoted more than other!
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Husband uses a tom tom. If he exceeds the speed limit a cow moos to alert him! ::)
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And if its going to be mis quoted i will definitley be the one to mis quote it,having not done that well at school and owning a peri menopausal brain and phone ::)
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;D I HATED poetry, Shakepeare etc. ::) so any quotes are those from my Mum ……
If our GPS mooed it would be into the next field :D …….. at least ours doesn't boss the driver, nor is she judgemental, she goes about directing us calmly and usually successfully. "Do a U Turn when possible" is disconcerting though when on the motorway :P
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I agree totally!brain kind of switches off when you are a kid having to dealwith that stuff! ;D
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Im having this too its alarming we were talking in work today about the last time when we went to the cinema, in my case it was to see breaking dawn part of the twilight saga, I could not think of the name of the film for the life of me, I was also trying to think of the footballer who had a hair transplant and was thinking is it George Clooney!! it was Wayne Rooney Im getting memory blanks seriously!
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It's a bit scary but perfectly normal apparently for both men and women in midlife. Here's an Oprah article about it http://www.oprah.com/health/Midlife-Memory-Loss-How-to-Remember-More
The part about seeing someone and not being able to recall their name really struck a chord with me!
Taz x
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Sometimes I get a bit scared of Alzheimer's because my mother's sister started with it at the same age as me. I know mum was scared of it too. But reading some of these posts I am thinking that we can't all be having Alzheimers
I meant to say cryptic crosswords are supposed to help. Mum used to do one a day and I also do them whenever I can. Don't know if it really helps but I enjoy them anyway
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I can't do cryptics nor anagrams but I love a good word-search or general knowledge X-word.
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If I didn't have my diary glued onto me I would never get my hair cut or my legs waxed! I once ordered a Chinese takeaway for a group of us. I wrote all the orders down and when it arrived there was no rice! I knew instantly Id forgotten to order any but to save face i gave the takeaway a pasting and they delivered rice later!!
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Aaaw! Poor take-away!
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I wish I could just put it down to age and meno.
Many years ago I got my daughter ready for her first day at nursery. I expected to see friends walking their children but it was very quiet.
Yep, a day early. I told my daughter we were practising not that her mother was a numpty ;D
Honeyb
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The lovely new slippers that I'd ordered online arrived today.
I tried them on and was dismayed that they were too small, especially as I'd ordered a size up. I tried them on again, I measured them next to my other shoes to see how much smaller they were (they weren't!). I glared at them because they looked so soft and fluffy, yet were so uncomfortable.
Eventually, resigning myself to having to return them, I went to wrap them up... and noticed that I hadn't removed the paper packaging from the toes. ::)
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Er - think I've done that......
Do they feel better now?
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Yes, I'm wearing them now and they're fab!
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May I laugh :-X
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That's why I posted!
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:rofl:
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I hunted high and low for the dishcloth and gave up and got another one out.
When I came to empty the dishwasher guess what was in the plate rack! ::)
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now there we differ, what on earth is a locking wheel nut ::)
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ah, I see (clear as mud) but your explanation makes perfect sense :thankyou:
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Today I dropped my watch off at the jewellers for a new battery. Went to collect it half an hour later and had to queue for ages. And the heat in there - by the time I got to the front of the queue, I'd taken my coat off. And after all that, they didn't have my watch. Because I'd taken it to a different jewellers. ::)
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:hug:
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:thankyou: however: talking with friends of similar age-range we find we are all struggling for words - we have whole conversations without using the correct words and still understand what we are talking about ;D
I do crosswords etc.; patience on-line ; but I still stand at the sink I have used for 30 years and wonder which tap is hot and which is cold ……. etc. etc. etc.!
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I found out earlier that the TV doesn't work if I point the land-line 'phone at it ;D
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I tried to get in the drivers side of my friends car on Sunday...I don't even drive. :-\
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Just chopped up apples to stew for pudding tonight. Put in pyrex dish then proceeded to try & put in washing machine instead of microwave. Think my marbles are on the loose again! ;D
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It took about 5 presses of the phone before the penny dropped ……… :lol:
We're in Good Company then ;)
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The other day I came out of supermarket,put the shopping in boot,opened the car door,got in ,wondered why I wasn't going anywhere!
Not surprised I was in the passenger side ! ;D
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You fit right in here :lol:
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At least you drive dazned...sort of!! ;D xx
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I ran an entire bath of cold water the other day. With bubble bath.
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I can top the wrong side of the car stories.
When we go to Spain I dont drive as I dont think I could cope with it. The first time we hired a car, hubby was arranging things in the boot while I was getting myself all comfortable in the car, water bottle, toll road money, map etc. I could hear hubby chuckling away behind me but had no idea what he was laughing at.
Then I heard a tap on the window beside me and he asked if I had noticed anything strange.
I was sat in the drivers side and I hadnt even noticed the STEERING WHEEL in front of me ;D
Ariadne xx
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;D ………
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I've waited 15 minutes for my kettle to boil before realising it wasn't switched on. Not to mention the washing machine that wasn't washing for the same reason.
Yesterday's bright idea was turning off the DVD player with my mobile while answering the DVD remote control. Note to self: do not attempt to multi-task. ::)
But I did feel better last week - took my Mum out to get a new battery for her watch - it didn't go after the battery was replaced and then the guy in the shop realised he'd put the old battery back in by mistake ;D It's not just us ladies that do daft things
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:lol: not a lot of hope but at least we're all in this together ::)
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I made a cup of tea for my husband and myself carried them into the sitting room, to which my husband replied 'darling why is the tea in water glasses'!! I didn't even notice that they were burning my hands when I carried them
I can also stand there for 30 seconds trying to think of a word mid sentence!! 2 hours later it will come to me and I'll shout it out, only the people I'm with then look at me wondering why I'm shouting out irrelevant words!!
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:rofl: you fit right in ;)
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I sent a text to 1 nephew mid-morning 'cos I thought I had forgotten his brother's birthday - he sent back that they are both October children :-X …….. real Senior Moment :-\
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I did a classic over the weekend. My son has recently started a new job, and has to be there for 8am which is always a struggle for the young right? Well woke up and realised I hadn't heard him moving about so leaped out of bed and woke him up - "its 7.30 you're going to be late" - to which he replies "It's Saturday mum"..... oh dear I wasn't popular. Worst of all it didn't even occur to me to think what day it was - if I'd been switched on it might have occurred to me that my hubby also wasn't out of bed...... ::)
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:lol: - now we are retired we have no idea what day it is :whist:
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I can't blame the strange woman for this one. We have a tap on an outdoor barrel which runs slowly so I put a can underneath the tap and wandered away. Then forgot. 20 mins. later I was weeding and could hear the sound of a water feature then realised that no one has a feature ……… so half a barrel of saved rain water gone !
Give me a :kick: :-\
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aww ladies i am sorry but this post has made me giggle ! thank you :-) ps had plenty myself..
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It's OK to giggle - quietly :rofl:
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I'm currently rereading 2001, A Space Odyssey and as I was reading it the other night I seriously thought to myself, "I wonder what year this is set in".
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Last night I'd hung OH's shirt to finish off drying (well get the creases out really) in the utility room over the boiler. This morning I asked OH to retrieve said shirt from the utility room. In he comes, bearing the shirt proudly, just the shirt mind. I queried the absence of the hanger, "you only asked for the shirt" ::)
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Always prided myself on my finances being organised without the aid of internet banking which I dont trust. have a little note book write it all down and do my sums.
DH just got 'one of those' letters for bounced payment, he was just about to go nuts at them when realised it was one I pay. I have just gone through everything, I know we had a bit of a blip at the end of July and had a lot to sort out to get straight again but 'should' all be straight now. Somehow I have gone very very wrong, or I have been 'done'. Of course no bank open now till Monday around here, and I cant go then as no time with work and appointments etc, dont have telephone banking either so cant talk to anyone without it. DH is now insisting I go to bank, sort it out and get internet banking so I can see everything without doing sums in my 'meno brain'.
Quite sad now if it seems I cannot even add up anymore :'( Be happier if I had 'been done'... thinking about it, might see if the one in town is open tomorrow, bit of a hike etc but worth it.
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Have a look on their web-sites - they should give their opening hours! Many are now open on a Sat. morning and some until 5.00 p.m.. You don't have to go on-line, it's a blip! Make sure that you aren't being done though.
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SadL - Online banking can be used to just look at what is happening in your account.
You don't have to create transactions.
Can you ring the bank to check the transaction with is worrying you?
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That would be my first question. Is this a legimate letter.
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thanks all, yes bank is open till 3.30pm tomorrow. They wont talk on the phone without a password for telephone banking. Its not the transactions that bother me its the on-line fraud, but is looking like I have been done anyway so much for that fear (those gremlins again).
Letter was legit, that wasnt the bank, that was the company I owed the payment too - DH phoned them and sorted that out. Suspect the letter from the bank will arrive tomorrow.
just what I need, tomorrow I am really busy too.
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This is important to sort out; then you will be able to sleep !
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Quite right, and so I should have - sleep??? think I vaguely remember what that is.
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I really like online banking. As long as you have secure passwords and good internet security then it's fine.
It means I can check my account whenever suits me just to check.
Hope you get it sorted out soon.
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me too, so convenient :)
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Did you sort it?
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sorry, daughter and all her grief yesterday.
Yes, ventured to bank (to town on a Saturday, not good). Seems my newly worsened menobrain has lost me the ability to add up and control my own finances fgs >:( All down to me getting it wrong. So no new kegal8 for me for a while :'(
Now have internet banking set up, as I am clearly too befuddled to sort it out on my own anymore.
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No you are not befuddled. You just had a bit of a CRAFT moment. You are still the capable woman that you always were and don't let anyone tell you any different.
Us women are our own worse critics. Cut yourself a bit of slack. We all make mistakes....oh and men do too you know ::)
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LOL, thanks HB - I just said the same thing to someone else on here, should take my own advice really :-*
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1 of us switched off our chest deep freeze on Wed. afternoon then went away on Thursday morning :-X
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Whoops, I blame 'him' of course ;D
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Well 'he' was hoovering before we went away but I stood boxes in front of the on/off lights so would have noticed had they not been there :-\. Bugga.
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sounds like a 'joint effort' then :)
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Without any communications at all ;D
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I carved the roast chicken. Placed it on to the serving plate. Surrounded it with lovely golden roasted potatoes. And gave it to the dog.
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Lolling, that was so kind Lynn ;D
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;D my dogs are now reading and hoping..
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Made a lovely cuppa, only trouble was I put a dog biscuit in my mug and topped it up with boiling water. :o
Wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't done this before.
I give up.
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Made a lovely cuppa, only trouble was I put a dog biscuit in my mug and topped it up with boiling water. :o
Wouldn't mind so much if I hadn't done this before.
That made me laugh so much!
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did the dog enjoy chewing on the tea bag ;)
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:rofl: well the dog biscuit won't do any harm: at least it doesn't do a dog any harm …………. :whist:
Who was the chicken and roasts really for?
So far today, so good ;-)
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Dog biscuit in cup of tea...I laughed so much I nearly wet myself! Oops. Shouldn't say that, should i! I might jinx myself.
As for the roast chicken dinner...yes it was meant for my family. My 30 year old son rushed over to me, yelling "muuum!" but it was too late. My dog is a golden labrador and we all know how greedy they are. Two gulps and it was half gone.
We had pizza.
I love this thread! It's soooo good to be laughing, ladies, isn't it!
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Yellow Lab. or Golden Retriever :-\ - Labs are known as 'dust bins' ;D
I nearly pulled the plug from the bath as I got out last night: DH usually has a soak after me :-X. Don't know what stopped me emptying the water, maybe that Woman!
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My Goldie was the same....a dustbin, and not a fragrant one.
Her favourite place to sit was beside my daughter....usually when food was on the go. I had to watch the pair of them very carefully because it was a bite for my daughter and a bite for the dog....then a cheeky smile from them both.....they loved to share.
My Goldie thought my daughter was her pup. If I turned my back she would pick my daughter up by her clothes and carry her to her bed. It caused a lot of amusement, but being your typical Goldie she was so gentle.
Heck I loved that dog.
As for dog biscuit tea...no it doesn't taste that good despite being made with gravy bones ;D
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I love my dog, too, Honeybun but she's getting crafty in her old age (are we all??). As I have been unwell, my husband has been giving her morning snacks before he leaves for work, to save me getting up too early (yes he's wonderful). When I get up at 7, Holly brings her snack bowl to me and looks at me pleadingly, as if to say "where's my morning snack?". No use telling her she has already had it from Steve! Or do you think their memory is just going, like some of us? Maybe she truly has forgotten she has eaten? (Fat chance).
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Nope - it's those dark soulful eyes ;D ……… they learn to beg from the day their eyes open ;). It works too ::)
I've had a relatively stupid-free day so far :whist:
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Yes, CLKD, I think you are right, it's those eyes!
:) I am so glad you had a stupid free day today. I did too but I have been in bed with a heavy cold and fever so couldn't get up to much.
It's Father's Day here this Sunday and my children and families are coming for a bbq lunch. How many stupid things can I do for that? I've even written out my potato salad recipe (which I should know off by heart) in case I forget a vital ingredient.
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As long ad you remember the potatoes lyn ;D
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Yes, Honeybun, must add potatoes to the list.... ;D
Sparkle: your dog sounds so sweet; keeping you company while your husband is away. Our dog's routine is a bowl of milky tea before bed (in winter she sleeps in the study on a bed my husband made for her). Then we take her out for a wee and cross our fingers for no incontinent nights!
We were away a few months ago and the dog flatly refused to go out for a wee (she had been spooked by various strange night birds at the place we were renting). My husband picked her up (yes, all 40 kilos of her... just kidding she's only 39kilos) and strode out into the night. He forgot about the steps at the back door and fell, spraining his back and breaking his ankle. This was at 3am in the middle of nowhere, mind. Would you believe it, the dog actually had tears in her eyes, as if she knew she was responsible? Honestly, it's the truth.
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Sparkle, you are up late! I'm going to drag myself down to the shops for more cough medicine now. My daughter says she is not coming on Sunday as she doesn't want the children to catch any more colds. Fair enough, I guess. Less people for me to cook for. If my son bails out it will just be a quiet weekend with the two of us. We can always reschedule.
Glad someone else forgets tried and true recipes too!
I meant to add... that routine of a cuppa, a wee and crossing our fingers for an incontinence free night also applies to husband and myself ;D
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lyn you sound like us, we have the routine with the dogs too. My DH spent years carrying old large dogs up and down stairs, he still wont have it we are getting too old for large dogs now.
Stupid things - I did it again, miscalculated the finances. Seems I cannot add up any more, I have written in large letters on my notebook 'USE A CALCULATER' fgs, I used to be a book keeper. ::)
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I hate doing the finances. I always end up feeling as if everything is my fault....well usually it is ::)
My hubby is perfectly capable but chooses not to and leaves the whole lot up to me.
My daughter has no interest in her money so I manage hers for her too.
And I don't get paid ;D
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Seems to be many couples like your friend Sparkle, my Mum does it all (which is scary in itself these days) my Dad does not know how to pay a bill, my friends parents are the same in reverse.
DH and I split it really, I do some and he does some - he earns more so pays more. He was very good about it, when I said about blaming hormones he rolled his eyes and said 'its more likely the lack of sleep that is doing it' (not sure he is following the meno thing, but he tries). Anyway he is going to sort it out in the week, and I am going to use a calculator in future. :(
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OK so far ;)
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Went out in the dark last night to feed a hedgehog: except it wasn't >:(. DH had been breaking up bricks …… in the dark the shape looked like a hedgehog :-X
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Sorry just had visions of you tipee toeing out quietly with hedgehog food it hand !
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;D I did - was dressed, fortunately and it was drizzling, hard :lol: The brick was not appreciative at all!
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Ungrateful thing, a brick that wasn't hungry ;D ;D
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Came on here to make a comment - can't remember what I was going to say ::). Then I turned the TV off rather than changing Channels ……. and looks like I missed the Hairy Bikers in the nuddy :o
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They say every cloud has a silverlining ;D
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Something I could easily miss ::)
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Did two stupid things in last two days,things are getting worse ::)
Yesterday threw a little hissy fit when I went to make a phone call ,punched the number in,no dial tone........Well there wouldn't be would there it was the TV remote !! ;D
Then tonight went to car park to get my car after work stood by the door and thought some b......4da stolen my crook lock ,then realised my car was two bays over ! Well it was a small,silver car like mine quite understandable really .
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"Crook Lock" - that dates *you* ……. :D
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I drove to the local garage, went to pay for the fuel and could not find my purse... nor my handbag bag! I left my watch with the cashier (who recognised me) to ensure I would be back to pay for the fuel and found my handbag (fully in tact) was on the driveway of my house! :-\ That's just one of many moments :)
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Left on the roof of the car then? Did that with reading specs. at a garden centre, never saw them again! I had thought 'that's not a good place to put them' :-\
In Church today stood up too fast and thought I was going to faint :o
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:( Sorry to hear that. I hope you are feeling OK now. I have only ever fainted once in my life and it happened to be at a music gig. Luckily, I was leaning against something quite solid so just slid down and then tried to disguise the fact I had no idea what had happened. I often go alone so thank goodness I had a girlfriend with me on this occasion.
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Once the end of the Service was close I began to feel OK again and the Church door was ajar.
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That's why I sit at the back of things. Except for the last funeral was at. Hubby informed me my sister needed me and marched me down the front....I was fine.
Glad you were ok CLKD...it's amazing what we can do when we have to. Well done you....oh and enjoy your view.
Honeybun
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:thankyou: we were at the back near to the door ::)
Dark now, no view apart from the warning lights flashing up the creek
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The view will return in the morning. Enjoy.
Honeybun
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Went down to London last Sunday, straight after playing for the morning's service. Going for the 1.30pm train. Took the bus from near the church, into town. Had about 40 minutes to kill, so went into M&S to get some tights. Didn't get any sandwiches in there, because I wanted to get something from the station. Came out of M&S and walked down into the station. It was just after 12.55. Thought I'd get my ticket out and check which number my seat was. :o Saw I was booked on the 1pm train, not the 1.30pm!!! Did my impersonation of a Bat Out of Hell, ran one to one platform, then another and eventually got the right one. Zoomed right down the platform and just made it into the carriage B, as the guard was blowing his whistle. Found my seat and sat down, sweating and huffing and puffing. Couldn't get my planned station sandwiches, that's for sure, so got some rather unexciting ones from the train trolley, half an hour later......................Well, at least I'd had plenty of time after the service and then a nice relaxed stroll through town!.............................. ::) ;D
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;D....glad your legs still do the bat out of hell impression.
When I used to travel by train....not a huge distance, they always used to have three trains going to different places but on the same platform....the amount of times I got on the wrong train....oh and if I made the right one I used to fall asleep and miss my stop.
Glad you made it Dulciana....bet it took you half the journey to recover ::)
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Yes, HB - it did!
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I do sympathise. I keep doing stuff like that. I came belting home one day convinced I'd left the back door wide open when I hadn't and as for tearful....
I keep hoping it will all go away
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Nearly: :o - was talking to DH earlier today and about to fill the powder drawer in the washing machine, scoop filled: turned head towards DH and his mouth was wide open/shut but the words "drawer isn't open" wouldn't come out ;D. Fortunately I realised ……. disaster averted.
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I keep coming on here to make a new thread but can't remember once I get here :-\ ……. I bet I'll wake in the night and remember :D
Remembered and posted on the 'what we have bought' thread :bounce:
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Ok - I have made the return to cooking.
Last night, it was chicken with mozzarella with sage leaves wrapped in parma ham.
I'd dutifully sorted some sage leaves out and sliced mozzarella. I then proceeded to wrap everything up when I realised, the sage leaves were still sat on the worktop. ::)
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DH did similar a couple of weeks ago. Chopped some basil to put on top of his pizza but left it on the other side of the kitchen: the side opposite to where he does the cooking ::)
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Bent to pick up a piece of very wet tissue from around the bins earlier. Only it wasn't :o - it was a lump of frozen snow :D
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Anything sound familiar? So far this week I've been fairly sensible ;D
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I'd arranged to meet someone this afternoon but I'd put it down in my diary as being tomorrow afternoon. The other person turned up at the appointed time today but I wasn't there. We've rearranged it for tomorrow but I was embarrassed. :-[
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Been there, done that! It is embarrassing! But I bet the other person has done something similar in the past. After all we would be very boring if we didn't make mistakes sometimes! I hope they were a friend, so you can have a giggle about it.
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It was my organ teacher (luckily, also a friend!), Ju Ju. He's not one for giggling, though! ::)
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Oh dear! :-\
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Mmm.....! ::)
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Dulciana This reminds me of years ago (can't blame menopause!) when I arranged to meet a friend at her house. I loaded my three protesting sons into the car and drove there and she was out. I waited a while with my increasingly fed up children and finally gave up and put a note through the letterbox (no mobile phones then) and drove back. We arrived home and there on the doormat was a note from her saying "Where are you??? Waited for ages - kids fed up - will call you this evening" - to this day we still don't know who got it wrong! ;D
Taz x
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This thread is so reassuring. I've done many things but on Monday I did something that has concerned me. I took my dog out onto the moors and then as we normally do got back into the car. I set off driving then felt that something wasn't quite right but couldn't work out what. Then I realised it was my driving but what. Then confusion as I didn't know which side of the road I should be on. I had to work it out by seeing if I was as the driver near the white line which I wasn't and it dawned on me I was driving on the wrong side. It lasted about a minute and I'm so lucky nothing was coming towards me. It's really shuck me up.
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If I had forgot the dog she wouldn't have cared so long as there was someone who found her to throw a ball!!
Yes, I'm like that on motorways now. I think for the last few months. I feel that I've got traffic coming from all angles from behind and it's all too quick. I've never liked the fast lane and have rarely used it but more so now.
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I thought you had forgotten the dog but what you state sound quite serious! Note to yourself - have a good look at where you are before you pull 'off'? Let your brain settle after your walk - sometimes being in the fresh air can make me feel quite giddy so perhaps sitting quietly for a few moments before starting the engine?
Anyone worried about driving can book lessons with an instructor you know, or have a word with the Advanced Motorists organisation for advice.
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Hello ladies.
Perhaps our brains are having to re-wire while we adapt to changing hormone levels, if so it‘s no surprise our concentration suffers. A friend of mine is a GP and has noticed her attention and focus have declined with the menopause, which is a worry obviously!
Talking of forgetting things I knew a woman who drove off to an appointment with her two children and was halfway down the road before she realised she'd left the newborn in the car seat on the kitchen table. Hormones were blamed then as well!
Take care ladies.
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Child seat on the kitchen table :o
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Thinking of something to share with you then forgetting once I've logged in :-[
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Hello CLKD.
How about forgetting to log out lol ?!
K.
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;D - I don't log out usually 'cos I wouldn't remember how to get back in ::)
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Refilled handsoap pumps, returned them to each bathroom. Child asked where the soap was. No clue! I searched the entire house before finding one neatly placed on the shelf in the shower. Checked the other bathrooms and found the same. ::)
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A week ago placed food in oven to cook. Then went to take a nap knowing I have to switch the oven off in an hour. So ... Napped, got up in one hour just to find that I didn't switch the food on at the first place!
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Yesterday I opened a Gu but it had 'bits' on the top where I thought 'bits' shouldn't be. YUK! so I took it back to the supermarket earlier. No problem, collect another off the shelf. When I got to the shelf I realised that whilst shopping on Tuesday I had selected the 'wrong' pot :-[ ;D : instead of vanilla I had picked up a caramel - so back to the member of staff to retrieve my packet of Gu - whoops :-\
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I think it's a new 'type' of Gu in a similarly coloured box >:( ……….. tasted OK though :D
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Er, what's a Gu please? Am I missing something nice?
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OHHHHH yes ;D …………. do a 'google' for "gu" which has a thingy on top of the 'u'. Made in packs of 2 and in various flavours ;)
"http://gupuds.com"
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How about walking round the house looking for my glasses when actually they were on my eyes already :rofl:
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Yep, done that, you are in Good Company ;D
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Mind you.... I can remember my dad doing that!!
Taz x
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Sat in the shade but forgot the very drying wind all day :-\ - lots of salve required since ::)
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Greetings All from Michigan USA. Happy to find this forum, none like it over here it seems. Regarding Menopause Brain - wow, it is a Real Thing. :o I started perimenopause at 45 and began experiencing cognitive difficulties like those described by others here. I could not hold onto a thought, forgot names of close family and friends, was confused by simple procedures at work, put away ice cream in the oven instead of the freezer on grocery day... I feared I was experiencing early-onset dementia. The herbalist at my local health foods co-op suggested a supplement called Citicoline CDP Choline. The brand is Jarrow - not sure if this is their proprietary formula. After a few weeks of daily use suddenly my brain was my own again. I still take it because I'm afraid of going back to that scary place. My sister uses it as well with the same excellent effect. It is too expensive at the local shop so I buy it online. If you feel you are losing your mind give this a try - can't hurt, and may help.
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Did you rescue the ice-cream in time or did the :cat48: and :scottie: get a treat ;D
You are in good company - browse round.
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Big delicious milkshake ;)
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Oh - hands over chilled glass ;D
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Checking the bins B4 pulling them into the yard earlier I noted that there was rubbish left in one but I couldn't work out if it was in ours or the neighbours :-\ - however, our bin has patterned wall paper all over it :-X theirs is black ……..
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... or maybe theirs is the patterned one and yours is the black one.... are you absolutely sure you've got it the right way round? ;D ;D ;D
Taz x
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.....you remembered the bins?? I'm impressed!! ::)
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:thankyou: …….. definitely our bin, it's my chore of the week so unlikely to forget them - yet ;D
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Not listening this morning: apparently :-\. When leaving a camp site we need to swipe the in/out card B4 putting it into the collection box and driving away. Guess who missed out the swipe part of the instructions ……… :-X
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We've been away for a few days but I had to go back to work today - needed to actually go to the office (as opposed to working from home) but as we have been away we had nothing in for the kids' lunches. So I nip up to local shop early this morning to get some sliced meat for them. Got home and put shopping away before setting off to work leaving my two at home (half term) content in the knowledge they won't starve in my absence. Unpacking my bag on arrival at world I find the packet of sliced meat....last week at the supermarket I bought a new notebook for work use; next day went to use it and couldn't find it anywhere; then had a recollection of paying for it at the self service till but not putting it in the bag with the other shopping - left it at the self-service till.....
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There'll be a 3rd issue then ::)
Did the kids survive or pop to McDonalds …….. ::)
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;D Just about ;) Teenager had to LEAVE THE HOUSE land go to shop bless him!! My memory is definitely getting worse though.... :-\
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They didn't starve then ;D - did it mean he had to GET OUT OF BED :rofl:
So far today, nowt 'done' :-X
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I did something really dumb the other day, and it actually made me stop and wonder about myself.
I made a cheese and tomato sandwich and only used half the tomato, so I put the other half in a container to put in the fridge. The next day I decided I would use the other half, but it wasn't in the fridge. "Hmmm, I must have already used it", me thinks to myself. So I grab another tomato, cut it in half and go to the cupboard to get out a container to put it in. You guessed it. The half tomato from the day before was happily sitting in the container in the cupboard.
At least it had only been there a day. When my mother was alive I used to find all sorts of moldy things in her cupboards.
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::) - Himself has managed to drop his food onto the floor - last night and again at lunch time 2-day :-\ - he managed to knock his elbow both times on the door surround on the way into the room, in exactly the same place ……. I will be carrying his evening meal for him!
I managed to bend into a nettle earlier, does that count :'(
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The most stupid meno brain thing I've done to date was also very dangerous and it's what promoted me to turn to hrt.
I'd been shopping in the Bullring in Birmingham and was feeling a little overwhelmed by it all, the bright lights, the heat, the crowds etc so I decided to pop into a cafe for a cuppa and a snack. Fine, I sat daydreaming and looking out of the window then once I'd finished I promptly stood up and left the establishment... Without paying!!
It was only half an hour later when I was looking at clothes in a large store that I suddenly realised and I broke into a hot then cold sweat. I started to shake as I was frightened I would be on cctv and get arrested. Anyway,I plucked up the courage to return to the cafe and I paid. I made some excuse about having a lot in my mind and the owner was lovely about it thankfully.
It scared me so much that I was in tears all the way home and I made an appointment to see my doctor. Such an awful thing is meno brain fog 😢
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I took DH to pick up his car after service. I drove in front for the journey home, a journey I've done thousands of times, came to a roundabout and couldn't for the life of me remember where I was. I turned right then realised I'd gone wrong. Managed to turn around and made my way back to the roundabout where hubby was still waiting for me. He said he knew I'd be back, it's in the 4 pages. (Advice for husbands I printed off for him).This menopause brain is like baby brain.
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It sure is and I don't know about you Stillsearching but I began to doubt my sanity at times.
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Our village ain't big but I would forget where I'd parked my car :'( - deeply depressed, I couldn't function ……. I took myself off the road for 3 months and NOT 1 of our neighbours noticed that the car hadn't moved :-\ :'(.
I am sure that the waitress would probably have noted that you seemed remote and distracted …….. :bighug:
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Thanks for the hug!
The waiters are all male in the cafe so they probably just thought " there's another mad old Chook" but yes, remote and distracted I certainly was. I used to walk round feeling like I was on cotton wool instead of a hard pavement and I'm sure at times I must have looked slightly drunk to others. Very weird.
No one noticed your car hadn't been moved for so long? That's awful, no one wants to be nosey but you would think that someone could have come across to see if you were ok. So, even in small villages it looks like community spirit is on the way out.
I read the other day about an elderly lady who couldn't get out of the bath and she was there for three days. Fortunately, a waitress in her local tearoom noticed she hadn't been in ( she was a regular) and went to her house. Thank goodness there are still some caring people out there.
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I read that too. The lady in question is now being picked up and taken to the cafe each day and that particular waitress is visiting her occasionally :)
One neighbour would drive by our house and not look our way :-\ …….. I had an AD many years ago which made me feel like I was walking on 5" soles ……. after 3 days I knew I couldn't take any more ……..
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Found another nettle today >:( ::)
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Finding a nettle CLKD - why is that a stupid thing? ::)
Leaving things in the Aga (on in winter) and forgetting about them and then discovering a lovely hard perfectly formed black croissant, or mince pie |(at Christams of course not now), or bit of quiche I was looking forward to for lunch? I think I do stupid things intermittently all the time - and also the putting things in the wrong place - quite worrying really - it wastes so much time looking for them!
Hurdity x
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>:( left the lids off the dustbins that hold the bird nuts, sunflower seeds ……. then it rained. Heavily. All night :sigh: bugga ……….
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Oops!
I wondered why it was so misty in the shower this morning, then realised yet again that I hadn't removed my glasses. You'd think I'd learn.
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Did it give you a giggle?
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::)Blamed it on menopause! Anything silly I blame it on menopause! Apart from wind, then I blame on the dog. (We haven't got one sssh!) It's never my fault of course! ;)
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I'm having a rotten day :sigh:
For years I have re-used cards as gift labels by cutting round the pictures with pinking scissors. For years they have been kept in two old chocolate tins, one for birthdays, the other for this time of year. I have spent 2 hours searching for the tin 'for this time of year' …….. almost driven to distraction. Then I found the cards, not in a tin at all :bang: ……. there were too many for a tin so I had swapped them into a plastic container ……….. :-\
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Bump for new member :D
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Twice this week I have prepared two mugs - 1 with 2 sugars for me but added coffee instead of a tea-bag :o :sigh:
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I came on here to post something really important and now I've forgotten :-\
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I can relate to a lot of stuff on here haha.
the other day i almost put cereal in my mug which had a teabag and milk in it instead of the bowl, luckily i realised in time and prevented myself from having a cup of cereal tea!! :stupid:
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Yesterday went out in slippers but not a pair ::) - fortunately Himself pointed at my feet!
I walked into a fly earlier, straight into my left eye :-\
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Went to my singing lesson with dinner smeared on my jeans. Very embarrassing.
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Did anyone else notice though :-\ - suddenly owned a dog/cat ? ::)
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DH, as I got into the car, late. No pets, just clumsy me.
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Did it wash out? ???
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Not washed yet. Hope so! Bed soon. Hope to sleep well. Hope Cubagirl does as well.
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Love this title!
Today I got home from work, I opened the front door, bent down to pick up the post from the mat and tipped the drink I was holding onto our new carpet. ::)
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:o ........ at least you didn't fall flat on your face :P
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Made a cup of tea and forgot the tea-bag! Hot water and milk doesn't taste so good....... ;D
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At least you didn't pour a whole bag of sugar into the bowl as I almost did last night :o ........ I don't know what stopped me ;D
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I almost created a fuss ....... in our local 'bank' last week. 2 weeks ago we went in and the music was blaring :o and as I don't shop where there is Muzak I was going to ask them to turn it down when I went in. However, apparently, there has been music in that Branch for 3 years :-X
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well I am a lot more sensitive to stimulus now than I was 3 years ago so perhaps you are the same x
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Came back home today loaded with grocery bags. Entered the garden and stopped to pick some geranium to take inside . Aparantly have put down two of the four bags I was carrying in order to pick the flowers, then got up and went happily inside.
After unpacking realised that a lot of stuff that I bought is missing and thought I have forgotten the bags in the shop around the corner. Asked daughter to go fetch them. When she went outside she shouted : "Mumy, there two grocery bags here ...."
Face/palm ! Everyday I have to remind myself that I am just perimenopausal and not insane !
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All unloaded now? :D
I can't understand how I hadn't heard the music previously .......... and Himself doesn't remember music either.
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I keep putting frozen food in the fridge :-\ last week I gave away a pound coin to some lucky person by leaving it in my shopping trolley I just put the trolley back in the bay and left it. Ir wasn't until I went to another shop I thought where's my pound then I knew I had done it. It's a small thing but I've never done it before the worst thing is i cudnt remember even putting the trolley back like i was on auto pilot 😩
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My brain feels fuddled more and more :-\ - I think a lot of my problem is caused because I am not working where anything 'matters' ..... so I moozzy through the day deep in thought. Not really needing to engage brain :-\
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Can totally relate to that. Up to my eyes in chores but like u say, deep in thought all the while I'm doing wat I'm doing. Never fully concentrating on anything but my symptoms sadly >:(
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:-[. ran upstairs. Trousers down. Bum down. Let go ......... pants and jeans wet :-\ as I hadn't lifted the lid ........ pants and jeans in the wash :'(
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Oh dear CLKD
That brought back a memory I must have been about seven and was playing out in the road with all the other children and I needed to go but was having such a good time I put it off as long as I could then rushed home and up the stairs only to do what you did that must why I always check when I go now I think it scared me for life.
Lanzalover x
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I simply wasn't thinking and because pants hit the lid I didn't feel the cold on my skin :'( ........ I think I'm beginning to get senile as I've done lots of stupid things recently.
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I think that has happened to most of us at one time or another CLKD. I know it has to me and much worse too.
Hubby and I bicker over the toilet seat. He leaves it up and I want it down. He doesn't understand why I get so agitated and I can't bring myself to tell him that when I get into the loo that any delay can be fatal for a bladder that hasn't as much control as once it had. And don't even mention closing the lid at night when I creep around and sit on a cold lid. Now I just put the light on and he can lump it.
I do try and keep my brain active by doing puzzles and "brain training " online. You can get some good free apps. I think it's like most things,if you don't use it you loose it and it definitely keeps the mind sharper. And it's fun.
Mrs Brown
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It's fun but there's no research that confirms doing puzzles etc. helps ! I do crosswords etc. every day. Love 'em and have several in the bathroom by the loo ........ today however, I was busy clearing up.
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I love crosswords but have trouble with 8s, 3s, 6s and 5s. I don't see clearly and often muddle these up and put the wrong answer in the wrong place then the rest of the crossword doesn't work. I will have to start borrowing hubby's photographic magnifier I think. ::)
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I often put the answers into the wrong boxes ::) ........ I had a pen with a rubber which could help but I've lost that somewhere :D
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Oh poor you CLKD, but it did make me laugh: I bet many of us have done the same. Blame it on our annoying men who don't do as they are asked! Leave the pesky lid up!! If you're suffering from early stage dementia, then we all must be. We all of us do daft things but it's because our minds are elsewhere.
Mbrown, I'm with you on the loo visit in the night, that drives me bonkers. My hubby has suddenly developed the annoying habit of putting the loo lid down, weirdly he only does it at night, never in the day. I try to make it to the loo without opening my eyes to prevent me waking too much and without turning the lights on and have a number of times sat my bare bottom down on the wooden lid. It's such a shock when it happens. After about the fourth time I threatened that I will wreak revenge with the lavatory brush whilst he's sleeping if it happens again!! :o
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When I was young I desperately shut the lid really quickly as I flushed the loo because I had the strange fear that otherwise rats would swim up into the toilet bowl :o In our house it is me that shuts the lid and hubby that leaves it up. I hate seeing a gaping toilet bowl as I pass the bathroom (he doesn't shut the door ::))
Oh and my stupid thing for today is pinching some of hubby's easter chocolate as chocolate disagrees with me, but it was calling to me very loudly :-\
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I've eaten too much so feel bloated and uncomfy :-\
I HATE to see house selling programmes where the loo seat/lid are open. Sometimes in the next shot it's all been put down :D
One could remove the lid maybe? But not, as in some parts of mainland Europe, have no seat at all :o
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Just came on to post about myself "doing silly things" and stumbled across this post so thought I would add my 2 pence worth ... went on errand from work today, came out of shop and couldn't find my car ... what a total looney I felt! In my defence, we visited same shop at the weekend, when I wasn't driving, and parked on one side of the car park, so I went on auto pilot to the same spot, and had that acute panic moment when I couldn't see car anywhere ... its not worth nicking so knew it was my stupid meno brain.
Then when I got back to work, my boss asked me to order something online, gave me a discount code to use and I merrily put the order on, clicked pay and confirmed it all ... then had an equally sinking feeling that I had forgotten to use the damn code ... been on to the company since I got home and requested its cancelled so I can put through again with the code this time, so hopefully she will never know (she doesn't do menopause, having had a really early hysterectomy and "been there, done that and got the T-shirt" already!)
I have also relocated through my job recently, and gone from a lovely quiet little "padded cell" of an office, to a larger Admin base where I share space, have lots of comings and going, numerous phones ringing at the same time and lots of different things going on. I used to work in a huge open plan office in my 20's and 30's, could keep umpteen conversations going at once and juggled everything without distraction ... now if there is more than one plate to spin, its all too much ... ::)
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Did you find the car :-\ - we live in a small town and I've had panic moments as to where I had left mine, even though I always use the same car park.
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yesterday I did a very stupid thing. I played Billy Goats Gruff on the rope bridge at the park with my small grandchildren. I was the troll and crawled around under the bridge. then as they crossed I climbed onto the bridge and they threw me off!!! I'm 60 years old for goodness sake I can't move today!!!!!!!!!!
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Put lovely hot water in the bathroom basin, pulled off a cloth from beside me and thought 'that's really thick and large this morning' - it was the hand towel not the flannel >:( ::)
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I love crosswords but have trouble with 8s, 3s, 6s and 5s. I don't see clearly and often muddle these up and put the wrong answer in the wrong place then the rest of the crossword doesn't work. I will have to start borrowing hubby's photographic magnifier I think. ::)
I once told my husband I struggled to tell the difference between a 6 and an 8 and he said "Thank goodness for small mercies" ;D
Ariadne xx
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;D ..........
put honey on toast and found out it's not nice :-\ - has an after-taste - wonder what the bees were feeding on ?
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I call mine a Winnie the Pooh moment, the day I lose my sense of humour I'm really in trouble
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When leaning forwards cleaning my teeth I almost hit my nose on the fixed mixer tap >:( - good job that 'woman' wasn't behind me, pushing!
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I've got a musical one.......recently, when I was playing the organ with an orchestra, there was a moment in one of the rehearsals that still makes me cringe when I think about it.... :o Half way through the piece, there's a bit where the organ and the timpani are on their own, in a loud and punchy section that's played twice. We played it the first time; all was well; I brought my hands down on the keys to play it the second time and - total silence from the organ.......while my hands were off the keys, I had accidentally touched and cancelled the piston that controlled the sounds I was using, thereby switching the whole lot off!! I was just glad it wasn't the concert............. ::)
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Whoops - were comments made :-\
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No, CLKD. We all had a laugh about it! :)
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Dulciana, at least that's one thing I wouldn't do! I wouldn't know how to turn an organ on let alone turn it off! ::)
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Dulciana, at least that's one thing I wouldn't do! I wouldn't know how to turn an organ on let alone turn it off! ::)
It's a bit like turning on a PC, Ju Ju, only with buttons and knobs!
How's your singing getting on? Are you doing any more choir concerts or exams?
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Two stupid things today.
1. I have one glasses case which either contains my glasses or my sunglasses depending on which pair I'm wearing. Because the case is old I have a stretchy hair band around it to keep it closed. Today when I swapped my glasses for the sunglasses I couldn't find the stretchy hairband and assumed it had fallen into my handbag and decided to look later. I had walked the length of the High Street when I wanted to swap back to my glasses before I went into a shop and to my great embarrassment, when I took off my sunglasses there was the hairband dangling from the hinge for all to see ::)
2. My stepson phoned my mobile for help with something on his laptop. A message he didn't understand had come up. I told him to hold on while I got my phone so I could Google it and actually spent some time looking round for my phone before realising I was using it. No wonder my stepson was chuckling away on the other end.
Ariadne xx
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How long B4 your stepson let on ;D
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I had regained my senses before I realised why he was chuckling 😂
Ariadne xx
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Were you able to help him with the message?
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Oh I am so enjoying these, in tears of laughter. One of my guilty secrets is that I have done that on-line Dementia test (where you have to write down 15 animals and idenfy the harp and rhino!) just to reassure myself several times in last 12 months. This week I have put an oven tray of bacon in the dishwasher. Have also tried to put a rouge M & M in a shopping trolley as I midtook it for a Lidl token! Six months ago I got into the passenger side of the car to drive much to the bemusement of my 10 yr old daughter (or is she 9, I can never remember and don't ask what date my son was born on!_. Didn't work but Euros and Aldi ones do!). I like to think that us sensitive types are more prone to these things as we then worry so much about them that it makes us worse.
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Oh hallelujah, it's not just me! I thought I was going round the bend! ::) :madeyes:
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Ha ha Roseneath. Mind you I started early as years ago I put a hot water bottle on the doorstep and took a milk bottle to bed ;D
Yes CLKD I did help him with message after I googled it on my TABLET and not my phone ;D
Ariadne xx
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Whoops - I usually swallow my tablet ;)
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;D. ;)
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At 9pm tonight I realized I had my top on back to front!!!!!!!!!! doh.
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This thread kept me feeling less stupid last night. I went to put down a glass on the table that I had moved, so it was there! Smashed glass all over the kitchen floor. You'd be surprised how far glass fragments travelled.
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I shower daily but Sunday night is my bath night and this time I was ready to empty the bath and couldn't remember how to unplug !!!
Now it's not old type, it has a dial to turn to get the plug up but I was trying to press a knob near the taps and then tried to press the plug (how the sink plug comes up )
I felt so stupid !
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When I return from holidays I often forget which is hot and which is the cold tap :-\
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I do that too !
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This isn't so much as silly thing done, just spoken.
Many years ago, I was in the 6th Form, so very many years ago. A friend who, like me, passed her driving test at 1st go, aged 17. She'd just got a new car and a new puppy. We were happily chatting when I came out with
"What make is your dog and what breed is your car?"
I spent a minute or two wondering why she was giving me 'one of those ' looks. We both roared with laughter when it clicked with me. A case of very early 'senior moment'?
The car was a Mini and the puppy was a Westie.
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oh dear, I've done it again.
Sat in bed watching the World Championships, (had bad night, so a quiet morning/early afternoon will help), when it changed channels from BBC1 to BBC2. Cannot find the remote anywhere, in bed, on floor, under pillow and frustration begins to set in. DH came to my 'rescue'. Nope, I was right, no remote. Then he sees it, sat on my bedside table! Problem solved! I didn't put it there, honestly :cuss:
My best things to loose, shoes, slippers, car key, door keys and Fire!
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These are funny. This is my best one: Whilst shopping in Asda I looked into my trolley and asked my daughter why she'd put several items in without asking. She said she hadn't and when I looked again I realised it wasn't my shopping. I'd only waltzed off with someone else's (full) trolley!!! We found our trolley abandoned in a nearby aisle. Never did find the poor person whose shopping I stole though. We still laugh about it now x
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Peri, lovely. Just imagine, a trolley full of free shopping.
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Alas it was before we got to the checkouts x
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Sorry Sparkle, the Fire is my Amazon tablet/kindle thing.
When I drive DH to his Monday pm stewarding post at South Devon Steam Railway, in the Museum, I rely on it to kill 3.75 hours. I have taken knitting or embroidery too. I'd like to be taking the latter on Monday, only 1 slight problem, where the heck is it. It's here, honestly, but where? DH suggested the cleaning cupboard. Looked, but still no luck. It's not hanging from the light fittings, not in the wardrobe, cannot be in the oven because I baked yesterday, not in the washing machine nor the drier. That one was a fair bet, we don't use it too often. The drier I mean ::). Running out of options. Not under the bed, it's a 4-drawer divan, so not enough space. I KNOW it's still in the ring and that is locked onto the seat frame. (Think hoop frame for doing the work with a stem attached. The stem fits into the hollow upright stem and that is permanently attached to the seat frame. Leaves 2 hands free to work rather 1 hand holding the hoop and the other using g the needle.) It ain't small.
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Today I went for a light lunch with Himself, the waiter put our food down and then asked "And how are you both today?" - I thought he was being politely inquisitive but it turned out it was someone we knew from years ago, I felt awful: note to self, don't dismiss serving Staff :kick: they are people too!
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Bumped for new Member - off to bounce 'that strange woman'
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Fabulous thread. Very reassuring to know that I'm not going completely mad!x
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I did collect by car for my food shop at marks on Monday but forgot to collect worst part is I even drove home called hubby on the phone and asked him to come down and get shopping out the boot as bags were heavy,he just shook his head when he opened boot and asked if I'd forgotten something,😂😂
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So far today ............. :-X
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Trying to get a dark mark off the side of the microwave,
Only for OH to say ‘that's not a dirty mark, it's a shadow.'!!!!
Wonderd why it wouldn't clean off.!!
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Ohhh eerrrr ;D
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Here it is.
Yesterday I muddled up the laundry - didn't know what I had put through and what still needed washing :-\
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Did a classic this morning... put my coffee in the mug whilst kettle was boiling and then put Diet Pepsi in instead of milk 🤣
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Ohh yummy annie0710 lol not coming to your house for my elevenses :rofl:
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Did U drink it?
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No i didn't drink it I realised as I was pouring it in what was happening lol
Could take off, remember ladies it was my idea !
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This was a month ago but i havent been online much to tell what happened to me. Ok. I was taking a baking tray out of the hot oven, as food was ready, and went to close the oven door, forgetting that I was still holding the super hot baking tray in my other hand and it came into contact with my other arm that was closing the oven door, so now i have 2 burn lines on my arm from the baking tray (one from lip of the tray, one from bottom of tray).
I dont think the lines are going to completely fade as it have been a month now and it is still there. The worst thing was me wearing a tshirt and a friend asking me if i had self harmed!! as it does look like cut scars and i had to explain that I burnt it on baking tray that came into contact with my arm.
I find that i am more clumsy those days, a week ago, i managed to stab my arm (the same arm with the burns), with my work knife trying to cut a cardboard box and it got stuck. I need to be more careful those days!
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Your right there sparklyweirdo we do get clumsier and more accident prone and as our skin thins with lack of oestrogen it takes so much longer to heal as well.
I also found my pain threshold took a massive dive,the slightest knock or if I jammed my fingers the pain was so exaggerated it was terrible.thank goodness that has settled down a bit now.
I've always been a dopey moo though so can't just blame meno for it 😂x
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I did the exact same thing over 20 years ago and still have a scar ::)
I feel more clumsy these days too.
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Your right there sparklyweirdo we do get clumsier and more accident prone and as our skin thins with lack of oestrogen it takes so much longer to heal as well.
I also found my pain threshold took a massive dive,the slightest knock or if I jammed my fingers the pain was so exaggerated it was terrible.thank goodness that has settled down a bit now.
I've always been a dopey moo though so can't just blame meno for it 😂x
My pain threshold havent been affected, as it takes a lot for me to be in pain totally, so maybe that is a good thing! I totally agree about the skin taking longer to heal as any papercuts or anything like that, it takes ages for it to heal properly.
I wasn't as clumsy when i was younger, it only got worse when i started my early meno journey, so cheers meno!
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My son says ‘Mom will you make me a coffee plz'
‘Yeah ok' I say,
Then I go and make him a cup tea!
Why?. Lol
I'm going potty...lol
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Did he notice though ;)
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I lost my reading glasses at work. Later that day a colleague asked if anyone was missing a pair of glasses as she'd found a pair in the dishwasher.
I lost the same pair of reading glasses at home. Searched the house, couldn't find them anywhere then later that day when I was taking washing out of the machine there they were, amongst the washing.
I have very clean glasses and surprisingly given how cheap they were, they seem to be able to take a lot of abuse :-)
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Par for the course. I used to find my glasses in the chicken run ::). In the straw, in the nest box, in the earth where they would scratch ......
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I bought some new curtains and was ironing them before hanging,as I was I Ironing the linings more and more blood stains were appearing and I said to my husband bloody cheek selling curtains with blood stains through them like this p,he said let me see and it turned out I must have gotten a paper cut off plastic when I was opening them and of course it was dripping on to the lining as I was ironing and I didn't twig,duh! Definately blonde moment ;D
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Oh! :o ......... ironig curtains, didn't they arrive ready to hang?
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When I ironed my new curtains,I burned a hole right through one of them,I cried my eyes out xx
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I must be curtain shopping in the wrong places.Ive always ironed my curtains before hanging except if I've had them dry cleaned.I also iron my bedspreads and duvet covers when new as well.
Lisa your not ironing my curtains any time soon lol
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Ironing must be 1 of the biggest time wasters on the Planet ;D
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Lol daisydot ironing is not my forte 😂xx
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Of course it is but it's a necessity if you take pride in how things look isn't it,there's nothing more off putting than a pair of crinkly old curtains draping a nice window so I make the time for it.
Same with clothes I care about how I look so I iron stuff even though I'd much rather be doing other things.
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May I bring my pile over ;). I know someone who ironed socks :o
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No you may not ;D I iron tea towels too shock horror 🙀 I can't help it I can't bear that tatty creased look.
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Ironed things fit into the drawers easier ;)
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I'll need to try ironing my belly then CLKD :rofl: :boobs: any maybe the puppies could benefit from a run over with an iron .x
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I'm like you Daisydot, if it stays still long enough I iron it!
JP x
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I'm on m y way with a pile Joaniepat ;)
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And mine jp..
I've got a big basket full, haven't done any all week,
Come to think of it,......what have I been doing all week?
God knows.......lol :neutral:
Jd x
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Er, ...... I'll think about it! Just admiring my own pile of ironing now I've done the laundry today ;D
JP x
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Kicked a wooden box yesterday OUCH! It's been in the same place for 25 years :-\
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I keep breaking things, usually glasses, and loosing things. Wasted ages today looking for my new credit card. Put it to one side to activate online and then couldn't find it.
Think I'm going nuts. It must be the heat ::)
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Hope you bought something nice for yourself, sg,
Lol.....
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I drop stuff often these days. In my hand one second, gone ............
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Well went to clean our on suite loo today. Had a Harpick bleach block to put in the bowl, plus a blue block for the cistern. I only went and put the bleach block in cistern.
Had to fish it out. ::)
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:o where did you put your egg :-\
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Don't ask...... :rofl:
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But I did :D - intrigued now ;)
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Cleaned my glasses with my 'foot freshener' spray.
Worked quite well actually. ;D
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That dates you if you can remember the Dunces Hat :D.
So far 2day I've behaved ....... there's still time though
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Yeah, just tried to plug my I-pad charger into my phone!
Couldn't understand why it wouldn't fit......then I realised....
Stupid or wot.......lol
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I picked up the 'phone to turn the programme channel ::) - twice :o
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I've lost the Organize your life workbook I'm working on to do a bit of a purge. Says it all really.
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I sent my SIL a birthday card via moonpig and forgot to write anything in it. The worst part was she automatically assumed it was from me lol x
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Just come off the phone with my partner, him telling me he will be late for lunch. I had already eaten mine - as I know he's always later than he says - and I've just realised that I didn't serve myself any of the veggies I'd cooked as part of the meal. Dohh! ::) Already had my coffee so do I eat them now :sick02:, or later when he comes in?? :lol:
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How hungry were you ;D
I LOVE roasted veggies. ..........
Annie :D ..........
So far today :-X
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Breakfast on the patio. Done. Took dish inside. Picked up cuppa with morning tablets. Sat down on bench by ponds. Put cuppa down, too hot. Got up and wandered round, planning the next gardening job. Back to the bench :o had dropped tablets hadn't I. But not once but I managed 3 times B4 swallowing them >:( ::)
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Not me this time ;-)
A neighbour returned home in her car. She was obviously having a conversation on the 'phone. We could see her carrying on and could hear :o the man she was talking at. He was trying to calm her. She got out of the car which began to roll away :o :o as she hadn't put the handbrake on. Another reason not to use the 'phone whilst driving! or when stopping or ever ...........
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:o managed to shut neighbours' cat in our garage this afternoon, didn't find him until about 30 mins. ago. He was hungry so I said 'sorry' by opening a pouch of meat - he'll not tell his owners though ;). He was there from about 4.30-ish. Hopefully he hasn't done a wee ::)
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Hopefully he hasn't done anything else as well. Lol
Cat poo don't half stink, don't it? Lol
He'll be back waiting to get back in there tomorrow, now he knows he'll get food.
Or he'll bribe you, ‘food , or I'll tell everyone what you did'. Lol
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:rofl: I got there B4 him, we've been out for the day. No sign of him yet :D
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Put my cornflakes in the microwave. Thankfully didn't switch it on and was on my own in the house. Feel so stupid though :-\
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Nodded off on settee for 20 mins earlier,
Woke up to a kiss on my lips. So I puckered up and kissed back. :-*
Only it wasn't a kiss off my OH,
It was our dog licking my lips!!!! Errrrrrrrr
HORRIBLE or WOT...... >:(
That woke me up pretty fast, I can tell you.....lol ::)
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I bet it did jillydoll.
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I wasn't best pleased. >:(
She does that occasionally, you just can't get any peace living
with my lot.......lol
They drive you potty.... :beat:
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:scottie:
They drive us potty but we wouldn't be without them
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Nah, she's lovely,
Just wanted fuss I suppose,
She's a treasure....... :madeyes:
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:rofl: it's when you know that they have recently cleaned under the tails :catscratch: smelling of Wiskhas :D
Was it a whole packet of flakes Anna?
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Last evening I put the dishwasher on, opened it this morning and nothing was clean >:(. I checked the dial and apparently had set it to 'pre-wash' :-\ WTF! It's OK now ............ why would a pre-wash be required anyway other than to confuse a menopausal woman :-X
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Nearly ( very nearly, mind ! ) threw a glass at the dishwasher , thought I was throwing a tea towel on the kitchen worktop ! Also my similarly aged friend , pushing her grandson in his buggy , went to turn a corner and her hand was looking for the indicator ..... my mums friend once made a cup of tea then couldn't find it , much later went to cupboard for another cup and yes there it was , she picked it up and it went all over her ! If I don't concentrate on my hands sometimes they've got a life of their own lol .
My husband is just as absent minded at times so think may be an age related thing as well !
Lemondrop xx
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Mum needs me to write her cheques [11] to send off for C.mas gifts. Happy to do so but: writing out the one to my sister from Mum, I filled in name and address rather than amount :-\. :bang: Got it correct the 2nd time.
Lemondrop - hadn't seen this one. :-\ not all 'new' messages show on my screen >:(
I almost tipped a whole bag of sugar into the tea-pot last week I don't know what stopped me :D
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I trotted the 65 feet to our compost yesterday B4 realising that I had left the kitchen caddy behind ::) so back I trotted to pick up the caddy ...... cheaper than the Gym :whist:
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Well I surpassed myself today.i spent ages chopping and peeling carrots and parsnips using my newly acquired wooden board with a built in tray underneath that you just pull out and scoop all your peelings in it to be binned sadly i put all my chopped up ruddy carrots and parsnips in it instead of peel and the whole lot went in the bin.I had it in my mind that once id put all the chopped veg in the tray id just slide it out and pop the veg into the pan but my mind forget to tell my hands so it went tits up straight into the bin and no it couldn't be rescued so it's back to the "chopping board" for me lol thank goodness I'd plenty in.DD :P😗
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You need a goat/rabbits/sheep ::)
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:'(. About 12 months ago I spoke to a family in a cafe ....... long story short.
Today went to the same cafe and thought that family were there, I was chatting away and the girl said "I don't think I know you". Wrong family I feel mortified :'( :-\.
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This thread has left me crying with laughter. Thanks ladies for the "pick me up" much needed today.
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Want feeling the best until I went through this thread and I must say it has made me laugh also I'm so really glad I'm not alone doing crazy things 🙈
Last Friday I went shopping with hubby he sat in car while I popped into chemist, I came back out of chemist with 2 full carrier bags walked over opened back car door sat bags in , then opened passenger door jumped in ... .... oops it wasn't our car , the poor elderly man must of thought I'd lost my mind !!
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DH opened the fridge door earlier. He went into the utility room for logs :-\ ::) and by-passed the basket :D
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DH opened the fridge door earlier. He went into the utility room for logs :-\ ::) and by-passed the basket :D
Oh, I've done that
Opened the fridge with a load of dirty washing in my hands.
I went to Bruges with my 'My Waitrose' card instead of a credit card 💳.
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My I giggle ......... do they have 'Waitrose' over there?
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I went to put a bottle of milk in dishwasher 😳
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Nothing today - yet :D. There's still time.
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I was going to water our cactii - some have been in the pots for a year. I knew that there were 5 on the shelf. I watered 3 then looked round, took me ages to find the other pot :-\. It was in front of me on top of the freezer :-X
At least I haven't grabbed a cactii yet ::)
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😂 I have a cactus which belonged to my mother,it's sprouting lots of baby cacti,don't know what to do🤔
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There's a cactii thread ;D
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Went into town specifically to buy 3 greetings cards
Done. Until I got home and read one of them properly. Lovely picture. Suitable wording. Except on the *front* - for my grandson and his wife on their wedding day ......... WT? >:(
So that's £3.00 spent on the wrong card ............ I had my reading glasses on at the time :-\
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I knew :bang: when DH picked fresh red beet and put it to boil that he would forget to switch it off B4 we went for a walk. I knew :o ...... that I would forget to remind him :-\ fortunately! we were home as the pot boiled dry, beets OK-ish :-\
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Trying to get that flipping rubber cat suit on after a shower whilst still damp!
Too knackered to do anything after that!!! :rofl:
Now that is stupid! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
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:o ? 'photos ?
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Nah, got me leg stuck, fell over and broke me camera!
Didn't do my back much good either....😂🤣
Needed another shower after all that, rubber don't half make you sweat! 😂😂
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Sounds like you would know :D
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I've lost my car several times in works car park. Things in freezer that should be in fridge. Forget everyone's birthdays. My mum rings me to remind me. Cant recall.stuff. I.have good days occasionally. Lol it's been going on a while but not so bad at mo. I did used to worry something serious.
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I think we've all worried hvenab,thing is,the more you worry the worse it gets,vicious circle 🤨
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Voice of experience,any other tips Birdy?jills a novice you see😂
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😂🤣😂😆 could be in there until you take it off,then booom!! Hope you've taken note Jill 😆
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I know people a lot older who don't do so many funny things. Getting lost in known car parks isn't an age thing. I don't get lost any more. I thought I had alzheimer's or something. Menopause is doing something. Gp said head goes bananas without regular estrogen and progesterone..... take a long time to settle
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I like how you two know so much about rubber! 😂🤣😂
Think I'm behind you lot.....better that way, you don't want to stand behind me! 💨😂🤣
As for losing the car, I'm always losing our car, I've even been known to walk up to the same colour car, and try n get in.....😂🤣😂
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Last week when I had control of the car keys I still got into the passenger seat ::)
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How far did you get😆
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;D ..............
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To add to this wonderful collection ;)
Today I had to take my daughter to the doctors, which is a short taxi ride from where we live. Doctor's appointment finished, and I call a cab to take us back home. Cab service usually sent you a viber notification and the number of the car that will arrive to pick you up. So , I look at the received notification, and memorize the number. (I think so!)
Time comes, a taxi arrives at the hospital, and I tell my daughter: "This is not the cab service we called, we shall wait!"
So we wait , and we go inside as it is rather cold.
And we wait.
And then I get a phone call saying: "Miss, the taxi is waiting for you outside!"
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In short: I though I called one particular company. It turns out that I called another company that I have on my speed-dial on the phone. Who knew! !! So I was waiting and looking for a cab from that "other company" that I thought I dialed.
A number of apologies followed: "Sorry I thought it said 2526 when it said 2527..."sorted it out, but when I got back home I said to myself: "There is something going on... you have been totally out of whack!"
We got home safely!
So , the finnier it gets, the more I begin to worry why I do these blips~
Milamam
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Does anyone confuse their OHs or anyone, with what they say?
I mean, I can be talking to my OH, or son, and what comes out of my mouth, to them is sooo confusing! Until in the end, they're soooo confused they've totally forgot what it was in the first place we were on about! They just walk off saying something like , oh for f sake.!
I do it all the time, I know what I'm talking about, it's them that confuse me...🤪
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Oh all the time,I'll be thinking about something in my head but then say something out loud like they know what the hell im talking about,mind you,they rarely know what I'm yakking about 😊
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My speech isn't always clear these days :-\ ........ my brain is quite clear but by the time it reaches my gob >:( :-X
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Always 1 to drain the bottom out of sauce bottles etc. I had left a shampoo bottle upside down on the side of the bath however; hair wet, shivering slightly, nowt left in the bottle :-\. I had been draining an already empty container >:( ;D
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🤣😂🤣 did you have to get out and get a new bottle?
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I wasn't in the bath fortunately but rinsed over the edge with warm water. Bought 2 bottles yesterday.
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I've started the bath tub, then walked outside for awhile...water overflowing everywhere. Put food in the crockpot, walked down an hour later to check on...never plugged it in. Found unopened ice cream in the refrigerator...didn't yell at anybody because I honestly don't know if it was me or not :wub:
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You'll fit right in ;D
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I had a real Senior Moment yesterday ;D - was letting the vehicles into the field, held open the steel 5-barred gate, then shut it once everyone was through. But I was the wrong side :D ........ so I quietly used the gate along the footpath into the field but they saw me creeping away ;D
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I keep putting my long-distance glasses down and forgetting where. I had searched for a few days then opened a glasses case - hey ho! there they were ::)
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My OH said to me the other day,exactly how many glasses do you need?i was wearing a pair and had a pair on top of my head🤓🤓🤓
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I hunted high & low for the vinegar lastnight to put on chips, was thinking to myself I'm sure there was plenty the last time I used it. Shut the cupboard after putting everything back apart fro what was in my (L) hand.....the vinegar!! ;D
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Sounds about right ;D
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Yesterday I went to put a spoon in the dishwasher and promptly walked over to the fridge and put it in there.... I stopped myself realising what I had done , then turned around with said spoon and put it in the bin! ;D
Third time lucky and the spoon made it into the dishwasher
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You'll fit right in ;D
Today I'm biding my time ;-)
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You'll fit right in ;D
Today I'm biding my time ;-)
;D I've just woken up after my night shift.... anything could happen :P
..but at least I remembered to rinse the conditioner out of my hair before getting out of the shower today😆 It's a good start!!
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It's a start that you are out of bed :D
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Twice now I've wrote out posts to welcome newbies.
One of them was quite a long post aswell.
Went back in later to see if they'd responded, only to find my post NOT there.
I obviously hadn't pushed the ‘post' button!!!
What a numpty! ::). ;D
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Is this you Jill?🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡
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Yeah something like that.... :argue: with myself! .... ;D
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Your posts make me think I was born menopausal
Since I have always been sooo very forgetful and absent-minded who knows which heights of stupidity I will reach now in peri
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What ever - you'll be in Good Company :lol: :great:
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I've lost some sheets :-\. We have a large bed so 3 years ago I purchased some extra-large sheets in a kind of grey colour. They have been on and off the bed twice. I can't find them anywhere :o
Next week I must go through all the drawers. Again ........
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I have been putting concentrated serum for dry and damages hair on my face every night! And I was wondering why I felt all sweaty and sticky. I blame Avon - the bottles are too similar :o
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.
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Well at least your beard will benefit from it, if it's anything like mine squeaker....🤣😂
( hope you've a good sense humour) 🤞.......I'm 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️
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That's how I would have replied too Jillydoll!! ;D ;D
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Yesterday I put a light-weight thermal t-shirt into a 30 mins. cool wash. Forgot about it :o until I pulled out a sheet that had been on a hot wash. Fortunately ........... the t-shirt seems 2 have kept it's shape. It ain't mine so it won't matter. Much ;D
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A small fly went past my face - I breathed in as I intended to blow it away. However :-X it's now in my throat :o. DH asked whether I wanted additions on my pizza topping but I don't think that he meant a fly :o
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Yum,protein clkd ;D
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but you wouldn't feed a live cricket to a dragon ;D
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ;D
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:lol:
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Had to delve deeply into the council bin 'cos I put yesterday's paper in without reading it ::) will take it on my time away to read at Mum's.
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That's nothing clkd,last week I lost my thumb ring which my OH bought me when we were in Norway,I'd done the washing (clothes etc) and in the past it has come off when folding sheets and making the bed,so,I was inside the washing machine,inside the tumble dryer,checking inside pillowcases,upstairs,looked under mattress under bed,everywhere,I'd come to the conclusion I'd lost it completely THEN went to make OH a sandwich and found it in the lettuce ;D don't ask ;D
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:rofl: ....... I haven't worn my rings for ages in case I lose them, other than my wedding ring. DH takes his off when fishing ::)
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As a habit I shake the cereal packet B4 pouring into the bowl. Might be a good idea to keep the lid closed next time :-\ ;D
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;D
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I went to Waitrose today with my jumper inside out. :stupid:
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Who pointed it out to you? Was this the C.mas jumper ?
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No, not the xmas jumper. My husband spotted it when I was unpacking. ::)
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New sheets this evening. Bit into a cream cracker and butter, now I've supper all over the fresh bed >:(
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OH, crumbs ;D
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;D. yep ..........
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I put the used sheets at the top of the stairs to bring down into the utility room for laundering. DH put them into the airing cupboard ;D as they were by the door ....... fortunately he remembered which ones ::).
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Had my shower this morning and applied face cream.
Put hair mousse onto my hand to apply to hair BUT was thinking about 'face cream'.
So, started to apply hair mousse to face. ::)
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Did it make much difference?
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I made the mistake of taking up a can of fly spray to our bedroom and sitting it next to my deodorant...........shall I go on? ;D
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:o .............. ::)
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There's 'no flies on you then'. ;D
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:lol:
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;D ;D ;D
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Freudian slip Birdy? ;D ;D
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I find warmed chocolate better than Dulux ............ :whist:
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I sprayed my sons black school shoes with sliver Christmas glitter spray this morning.
My excuse was the cans look similar and I wasn't wearing my glasses.
it was impossible to get off so he went to school looking like Elton John. Woops :-\
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Did he survive the day :o
What's his fee ;D
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Brilliant, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall ;D
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Oh, that made me giggle. xxx
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I would giggle if it happened to anyone else but the shoes cost £45 from M & S.
On the flip side if you fancy livening up your black welly boots I would highly recommend
the spray for staying power!
To be honest he is that wonderfully unbothered about his appearance that he wouldn't
even have noticed if his dad hadn't freaked.
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Maybe someone had put onto the outfit when you were chatting ? It's the 1 thing we are all told when going to Church: make sure that the price label is removed from shoes so that when 1 kneels down ;)
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:whist: .......... >wanders away quietly < ;D
Has anyone made any comment since, maybe a bit too fiddly to notice ;). Better than skirt hooked into knickers ..........
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Or lipstick smeared all over your teeth! 🤣😂🤣😂
Could've been worse Birdy, it could've been on inside out!
Hey Jaypo....🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Oh hahahaha Jill,yep,ladies,thought I was the bees knees too,sitting having my dinner in the fancy restaurant on the ship,thinking hey girl,looking good,only to have the lady at the next table tell me my cardy was on inside out,big white label sticking out the side
THERE!!! Happy now Jill?😂😆🤣
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Just couldn't resist Jay....I'm a grass, I know, I know....💕. 😆
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Oh oh and here's something I forgot to tell the grass Jill,Once in a while I put those magnetic false eyelashes on,just little half size ones,bit of extra glam on the fancy nights on board,anyway,got back to cabin and my OH goes,what's that in your hair? ::) Aawwwww geeeeeze
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Love most these comments!
Some of them made me laugh out loud! ;D
Somebody ought to write them out and publish them for posterity and to make us laugh when we are feeling so fed up of the daily trials and tribulations that Menopause brings us!
Rulo xxx
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We've GOT to keep this thread at the top of one of the leading pages! I'm still laughing my head off at the comments!
Rulo xxx
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Glad we've made you smile rulo,why don't you look at the funny side of menopause and the thread “things we've diagnosed ourselves with†it's just as funny,I'll see if I can find it and bump it for you
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Stepped out the back door to go to the compost at the bottom of the garden - 80ft away - to find that the rain is smashing down :o. Turned straight back inside ;D
Did lots of stupid things over the years, 2 are haunting me :'(
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I left work last week at 4pm having told my colleagues I had a dentist appointment to have a tooth filled. Everybody wished me good luck and I sped off, not wanting to be late. I arrived home at 4.30pm, fed the cats, sat down with a cup of tea, switched on the telly.... and forgot all about my dentist appointment :o
That's pretty dire, methinks :-[
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Fruedian slip?
Did the Surgery ring to ask where you were? :-\. Dare you make another appt.?
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My thing at the moment is doorframes, everytime I go through one, guaranteed to smack my elbow up ;D honestly my arms aren't that big lol
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CLKD they didn't ring me (too busy I think). I did ring them the following day to apologise & re-book. Have to face the whole thing again this week. Don't think I?ll forget again ;D ;D ;D
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My thing at the moment is doorframes, everytime I go through one, guaranteed to smack my elbow up ;D honestly my arms aren't that big lol
Strangely enough mines door handles! - I'm constantly banging my arms into them not sure why but I've got the bruises to show
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My sister went to work in odd shoes. They weren't even the same colour.
I've not got that bad yet ;D
Catweazle x
I've done that before but out to a restaurant not work. I was mortified when I stepped out of the car and noticed.
Mintea x
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Not done that but gone out the door in my slippers plenty enough times 🙀
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........ slippers, driven away: arrived home later to find porch door wide open :o
Shouted at Himself yesterday :-\ then I couldn't sleep :'(
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Sadly i wish this thread made me feel better, it just depressses me.
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He luvs ya clkd,don't worry :)
But ladies,we need to laugh at ourselves sometimes,it really does help a lot of women on here but I understand how some are going through it worse than others but we DO need a thread just to laugh and get away from the very serious side of it all xx
Hi Birdy :)
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Thing is, when we?re going through the really rough, bad, horrendous, times of meno, this is the last thread EVER to come into. I remember when I was really poorly, I never entered this thread because I didn't want to laugh! So I let the others get on with it. Then when I started to feel better, and I read all the funny comments off people, I started to find it funny. It gave me hope, that one day, I'd be ok, and be able to except all of this mountain of meno shite! Because, let's face it, all the ladies on here have gone through maybe the worst time of their lives! ..AND, are still going through it. It is hard to except, all the changes, our ages, non of us want to feel we?re getting older. This thread made me feel ?normal? if you like, that all the things I was doing due to meno brain, and so on, is and was NORMAL. ...and I say ?normal? with tongue in cheek because I've never been NORMAL. 😆😂
Hopefully, one day, when you all feel a little better, and YOU will, maybe then, you?ll see the funny side, just like I did. .....wishing you all well. xx
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Good one Jill,probably the same for most of us,Not so long ago, I didn't want to laugh,didn't think I'd EVER laugh again tbh but this site has been a saver for me and when I picked myself up and felt better, I looked at the funny side of meno and was in stitches
Oh and I can vouch for what Jill said,she's NEVER been normal ;D ;D
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I have just poured milk into the teapot instead of my mug :(
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That's par for the course in this house, though it's usually sugar into the coffee and Himself doesn't take sugar ::) and on Monday he didn't put sugar into my tea :poke2:
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Yesterday at dinner time, I went to pour myself a glass of cranberry juice from the fridge,poured a glass of milk instead,last time I had a glass of milk I was about 10 :o
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At which point did you realise ?
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Halfway through,I just thought...what ARE you doing you stupid woman ;D ;D
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Was that half way through pouring or half way down the glass ;D
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;D ;D
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I HATE milk ::)
Unless it's thick with chocolate :whist:
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Don't like it either,only use it in tea or coffee
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Oh!! putting milk into my tea would be a Very Stupid Thing to do ;D
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Hi there ladies,
I had a real stupid moment the other week, I was shopping at Aldi, and went back to my car standing at the boot to put my groceries away. I see a baby safety seat through the back window. I thought 'that's strange my car just made a baby seat, I didn't know it could do that?. I actually took a step back and looked at the car ?blue I30 that's me?.
I'm now trying to get the door to unlocked with my remote control. Still thinking how strange my car make a baby seat. Nothing happens. I then looked to the right and there's my I30 three parking spots away lights flashing on and off and hitting my remote trying to open someone else's car ;D
You would think the baby seat would been obvious that it wasn't my car, ;D
Then yesterday I was using my netti pot, and I wanted to feel to see if the water was cool enough to run through my nose, so instead of using my finger, i smell it, like as if smelling water would tell you it's cool down enough ;D
And I will probably do stupid stuff today only got 30 minutes of sleep last night :'(
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Why doesn't the brain react? Is it so that others can see us being foolish :-\
You'll sleep better tonight, the body will catch up. I had a couple of bad nights during the week but feel OK again.
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Hahaha funny,at least you found your car,I can walk round and round a car park not having a clue where I've parked ::)
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I always park in the same place - ish. If I forget I flash my key fob and watch which one opens ;D
I don't always listen to my brain though. I left my reading glasses on top of the car whilst loading the boot, thinking "that's not a very good idea". Sure enough I drove off, glasses never seen again :-\. That was at the time ?200.00 down the drain ......... I can't understand why I didn't follow through 'not a very good idea' and put the glasses inside :-\
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Oh noooooooo glasses!!! I've a million pairs and still manage to lose them,the best one is always when you?re searching high and low and your OH just looks at you and shakes his head as they are perched on top of my head ;D
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I did sleep well last night, and I don't think I did anything to stupid. But probably won't be long before I've got another story to tell >:(
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Don't worry lyncola,you?re amongst friends..........odd and strange friends but friends nevertheless ;D
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Put a load in the washer yesterday, filled the detergent holder thingy ( does it actually have an official name? ) ...placed it on the kitchen worktop and switched on the washer :-\ This is a regular accurance atm 😂
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I don't remove the powder ? dispenser ? until it needs a wash in the sink or dishwasher. I did something silly yesterday but can't remember what it was ::)
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Hi
I'm so glad to read this as I was thinking I was losing the plot.
I was talking to students and said the Prime Minister - couldn't for the life of me remember his surname - all I could think of was Bekker!!
Today I ran over a traffic cone in the garage car park and wondered what the crunching sound was - I didn't own up - just drove off out of embarrassment!
I stood in the kitchen at work and asked someone if the water was safe to drink out of the hot water boiler - she said it's where you always fill up your coffee cup....
I'm trying to laugh with myself now rather than get upset. At least I can amuse myself...
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You'll fit right in ;) ;D
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I don't remove the powder ? dispenser ? until it needs a wash in the sink or dishwasher. I did something silly yesterday but can't remember what it was ::)
I meant one you put directly in the washer drum for liquid or gel ( when I remember 🤣) ... not the drawer😉
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;D. now me: I wouldn't remember having put a capsule into the drum so would probably add another ::)
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Thank goodness it's not just me then,did that the other day,had to stop the machine and check I'd put one in,how can you possibly forget doing that in a space of seconds :o
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I spilled a vase of stale water and a glass of coke earlier - always surprises me how far a spill travels over a work surface >:( and it took ages to mop up :-\ - I am not aware how I caught the two articles either :(
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Ha, I know what you mean clkd, I have one of those nespresso coffee machines,pop the cup under the spout and press the button,so,did that,then went to fridge and got the milk,back to machine and I hadn't put the cup close enough >:( result,coffee EVERYWHERE,under things and dripping onto the floor,it's a wonder I never threw the machine out the window ;D
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:o double :o
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All this hand washing, I got lazy and forgot to turn the nozzle away from my face ;D
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I carried my hand sanitizer with me on my walk earlier but it was upside down with the lid open >:( - well at least the pavements in our village won't get a virus .......
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I usually have yogurt and fruit for lunch,mixed in a bowl,was nearly mayonnaise and fruit this lunch time ;D
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:sick02: ;D
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The last silly thing I did was a couple off weeks ago, I live in Australia and with the big Westfield shopping centres you have to pay for parking (first 3 hours are free). So when you drive into the car park you have to get a ticket before you can enter.
As I was leaving the shopping centre it's the same thing insert ticket into machine for the boom gate to open. For some reason instead off inserting my ticket I press the red button (maybe I thought I was entering, where you press the button to get your ticket). I think the red button was a help button? As soon as I press it I realise I did the wrong thing. So now I'm talking to the machine, I actually apologise to the machine and explain to the machine that I'm menopausal and don't know what I'm doing ;D
Why was I having a conversation with a machine and apologise to it. But then again I do talk to myself all the time, even in the supermarket, I will have a complete conversation with myself ::)
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As long as the machine didn't start to talk back to you ;D
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there's no hope :D
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Thank god no, and it would of been embarrassing if a person came on to help me. It would of been Funny if someone was watching me and could hear me ;D
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I've had a go today ;D
The paper bill for Mum's deliveries arrived this morning so prior to our walk I wrote the cheque. Put it into an envelope with a 'thank you' note to the shop - DH has Power of Att but I forget to get him to sign it ! So I rang the shop to explain and will put another cheque into the post tomorrow. She was very sweet about it .......... ::)
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I'm so glad I was directed to this thread because I was getting seriously worried about my memory/cognitive function.
I'm 51 and have been peri for a few years with very few symptoms, but this year it has really hit hard with me doing the most ridiculous things.
Last week I steamed mandarin segments instead of carrots, a couple of days ago I left my window in my car open all night in a car park, and yesterday after lovingly preparing a sausage casserole in the slow cooker, I went back several hours later to check on it, only to find I hadn't even turned it on. So pizza for dinner it was.
I was really beginning to question my own sanity, but thanks to you lovely ladies I see I'm not alone!
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Well,as you can see leesh from reading these posts,you?re not the only one, I even say out loud now,to myself.......you stupid woman :D
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...... and watch out for that woman in your house :o
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My manager wants me to let my colleagues know that I am perimenopausal and that I can sometimes be agitated, low in mood and that I can come across as being aggressive but it's due to my perimenopausal.
I don't want to be labelled as someone who us going to just kick off but do need to let my colleagues know that some days I am not myself and not to take offence if I come across as being short/rude etc.
Any advice please would be much welcomed
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I think that our medical health is between us and our GP/Consultant. Your Manager is passing the buck. Maybe suggest that the Company, during lockdown, forms an over all strategy for staff? For all medical conditions? This shouldn't be about 1 person, i.e. you.
How well do you know your colleagues ?
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It's a difficult one and maybe depends on what your colleagues are like. On the one hand any medical condition is none of their business but you'd hope they'd be more tolerant if they knew. If you do tell them perhaps print out the Advice for Husbands and stick it up on the wall? There are still people who think it's a big joke and have no understanding of the reality.
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I worked in various groups over the years. The younger I was the less likely to share my feelings in case I was judged. Later I was in an office with 4 others and we all knew what was going on .......... but a large company should have a strategy in place. For example, it is illegal for a male manager to ask a female colleague why she is taking time off work. This should be via HR or the Company Nurse to offer support. Not in front of colleagues.
MayB ask what procedures are in place?
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Our team only consist of 14 people but am worried that I could be labelled as aggressive but there is also the potential for some colleagues to abuse the information and exgarate and incident. I don't see why I should have to say I have a problem staying calm at times.
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I used a spray on self tan last night before bed.
Sprayed my arms, face, legs last.
Stood on the wooden floor in the bedroom and it was all slippery.
I slipped around the bedroom looking for wipes to wipe it up. 😆
TODAY, the soles of my feet are looking like brown leather! 🤣😂
It didn't dawn on me I was slipping around on self tan, and that my soles would tan as brown as any steak on a BBQ. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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;D ....... 'photos?
Barnaby - you know your work team - could you take each one on side and discuss? When 1 of us was 'off' my boss would shout PMT Girls - he was a psychologist ;D - don't know that I would have tolerated that from any other boss though.
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I could do but there are some new starters who I don't know and I don't feel comfortable talking to them about such personal matters but am being pressurised by my manager
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Haha clkd,she's not joking,Jill, I never laughed so much when I saw your feet,I just thought,yep,only SHE could do that :D
I cleaned my kitchen window the other day,it's got a very large sill where plants sit,because I'm a short arse I've to stand on the work surface to clean it,took me ages,went to step down and knocked a pot plant and earth went everywhere >:( >:( >:( I walked away and let my OH clean it up ;D nearly blew my top
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Whoops. I sit on the our kitchen surface to feed birds from the window, step up from a chair - found myself stuck 'cos I got scared :-\ ..... I didn't dare put my foot down for a while.
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Aaahahahaha that's me too clkd up on a chair then onto work surface,then getting down I'm ohhhhhh nooooooo ;D
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I could do but there are some new starters who I don't know and I don't feel comfortable talking to them about such personal matters but am being pressurised by my manager
The decision to tell your colleagues is yours alone. If you're not comfortable telling them then don't. It's personal information that your boss cannot make you share.
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But if he does ? :-\ share .........
So far today :-X
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If he does he gets disciplined or sacked. I suspect he knows he can't which is why he is pressuring Barnaby to do it herself.
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So there should be a protocol in the company for tackling various health issues? Stand your ground or simply go in and tell co-workers "I've had a bad night with little sleep so Stand Well Back!" ;) "I'm menopausal and I know how to use it" ..........
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I use 'gif' in the bathroom and kitchen. The tiny hole in the lid had got stuffed so it wouldn't flow - I had intended to poke it with a stick to allow the cleaner to flow but apparently I hadn't put the screw cap on properly. When I did a squirt into the bathroom loo earlier I almost emptied half the bottle into the water as well as the lid :o !!
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At least you weren't looking at the hole... :)
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:rofl: :lol:
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Hahaha that's the sort of thing that happens to me.
Not sure if I really am losing my marbles or not but last night I was going to get a drink from the kitchen and my OH said,oh,could you take me through some rennies whilst you?re there,yep,got my drink,came through,sat down and OH is just looking at me,he gets up and goes to get his rennies ???
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Happens to me all the time jaypo, it seems like I can only focus on one thing at a time!!
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Unless I have a list ;D - then I forget where the list might be :D
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Glad it's not just me then,how the flip can you forget something in a matter of seconds :o
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Quite easily ;-) I don't know how but it's regular in this house.
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My OH & my daughter are constantly giving that glance at the sky look to each other ???
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Collected lunch time dirty plates and put into an already full dishwasher. Then realised that most of the crockery in it had been through a cycle earlier ::). DOH :kick:
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So the madness continues.
One of my kids bought me a mug years ago and I love it, and it's my go-to one. So I couldn't find it the other day...we turned the house upside down, and I even asked the kids if any of them had broken it by accident and were too worried about telling me (understandably, as it's my favourite). Nope, none of them knew anything. Then I found it. In the bin. Whole. Next to where I sit on the settee at night.
Then last night, my son couldn't find any forks at dinner time, and again we searched high and low, thinking they might have mysteriously made their way under one of the kids' beds or something. No, they were all in a kitchen drawer that is NEVER used for cutlery!
I laugh about it, but it's actually quite scary at times.
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Oh, and I threw my strimmer across the garden last night in a total hissy fit because the line kept breaking ;D This is not like me at all!
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Oh that's VERY like me, I do a lot of throwing ;D ;D
Don't worry too much about it leesh,it's all par for the course, I can forget things in a matter of seconds
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I'm usually very mild-mannered and not a lot gets to me, but yesterday was one of those days...a part I ordered for my hosepipe was the wrong size so I couldn't finish the garden, the Amazon driver literally threw a parcel on my doorstep which had fragile written all over it so that annoyed me, my next door neighbour slammed her window every time I stepped foot in the garden in case I made noise/mess, and then the strimmer broke. It wasn't a good day! ;D
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It's not you, it's that Strange Woman in your garden ;)
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I think we are all becoming a bit ratty,things that never have bothered me before now do.
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I'm ratty today :-\ 2 warm to do much outside
No laundry to put through
Dishwasher needs loading - but won't do it on it's own :(
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Glad it's not just me!
I'm honestly usually so laid back that it annoys people, but the other day was horrible. Do you think it's a culmination of things? Meno, heat, and of course, the lockdown and worry over the virus? I'm very lucky and incredibly grateful that nobody I know has been affected by it, and that I still have my son and daughter living with me so I've had company, but I would imagine it's been hellish for anyone on their own.
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Well - I've had a really bleary, woozy morning with a Lot in my Head - most sorted now.
However: loaded the dishwasher and put cat biscuits into the tray rather than powder >:( took a small spoon to scoop them out ::)
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Nearly brushed my teeth with exfoliation wash :o
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WHOOPS :D
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Cold curry + bowl - should be safe? Nope. Somehow it slipped off my lap all over the woollen mat [now on the line in the rain], newspapers, carpet :-\
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Mmm,that should smell nice :o
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:-X. it's OK. We mopped it up fast and threw out the debris. DH plans to wash the furniture and carpet mayB it's brought the chore forwards ?
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Zoflora has a nice smell
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:-X. nope.
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Tnx ;D
Curry cooked yesterday. Cooled over night. I love cold chicken curry. Mat is hanging on the line and seems to have recovered. The lounge carpet however :-X ::)
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Isn't vinegar supposed to be good for smells?
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Nope. Nasty effect on my guts = very, very bad smell, the sort that can kill at 20 paces. Curry too.
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It amazes me how peoples' guts differ. My problem is onions and I love 'em ::)
I got out of bed this morning :-\
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Me too. I don't eat them raw as they repeat on me but I love them fried. OH needs a clothes peg ;D
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Lovely garlic bread,I've to burp in another room ;D
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DH makes garlic bread - he buys 'French' sticks, splits them and slathers them in garlic butter. He has in the past put a layer of plain butter, ham and cheese in a split French stick, covered in foil and heated in the oven ......... ;D sorry wrong thread :-X
I cleaned the skirting boards in our cloakroom and disturbed a Large Spider :o ........... there's a gap where she lives behind the pipes ;D
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Just realised that the PM I sent yesterday, was to the wrong person.
Know wonder I didn't get a reply. ::)
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Could have been worse. Friend's husband sent an intimate text to the woman he was having an affair with but sent it to his wife instead. :o
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Omg Sheila 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀 what happened?
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It wasn't good. She'd been wife's best friend for years which made it worse. Friendship over and very uncomfortable few months but they were getting back on track. Then he died in an accident.
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Blimey,what an awful story :-\
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Decided to do a breast check whilst wearing a crop top type bra. Panicked when I thought I found a lump, to then realise it was actually my nipple!!
I’m losing the plot
Jeepers xx
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I *was* having a good morning :-\
Light lunch taken
Decided to weed a border and then I watered it with the hose
Turned off the tap at the wall which continued to run 'Ah it's backing up from the hose' so pulled the hose off the reel. Of course it was backing up ! which bit of still spraying didn't I get :o
Jeans now soaked from mid thigh :-X and 2 spare jeans: in the washer, put there slightly B4 I did the above. So no spare jeans expect my Very Best !!
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Similar happened to me a couple of days ago when I was worming sheep. Only it was a sheep not a hosepipe and it was suffering from too much rich grass... didn't notice til the back of my leg felt warm... worse when it had gone cold... and my nice brand new socks are permanently stained >:(
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......... what r we like ;D and of course, you'll have added aroma ..........
what socks do you buy, I can't find any knee length that last very long :-\
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Putting the shopping away, emptied a bag of multi pack crisps onto the kitchen table, so I could get rid of outer wrapping, only it wasn’t a multipack, but a big single bag.. meaning I chucked a massive bag of crisps all over, with great gusto!!
I imagined what someone looking through the window would have thought. ;D ;D
Jeepers xx
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Good to share ?
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It'll be my dog looking through the window, she'll volunteer to clean them up for you :scottie:
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;D ;D
I should have borrowed a dog... My cat was worse than useless!
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I went to my fridge the other day, and stood there with my hand on the handle.
And say the usual “I know I’m here for something” I stood there thinking very hard.
And what was I looking for?
My mobile phone, why I went to the fridge, I have no idea ;D
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And another thing I did,
Cleaning a customer house, I went in a bedroom to dust. Realised I’ll forgot to vacuum the bedroom.
Apologies to the customer daughter, went down stairs grabbed the vacuum I just put away.
Brought it up, plugged in, started vacuuming the room, to realise I did vacuum that room.
So stopped went out apologies again and explain I’m menopausal and have no idea what I’m doing.
Oh well at least the carpet was extremely clean with my second vacuum, and I didn’t charge extra ;D
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Fridge would be my first look-C for glasses :D ...... mobile could be anywhere, usually down the back of the settee.
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Hahaha you sound exactly like me lyncola,the number of times I've gone to the fridge and just stood there with my hand on the handle ;D you've got to laugh
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Thankfully realised before leaving the house for work I had forgotten to but my bra on under my tshirt!! The day before I was struggling to fasten bra, only realising I had it on inside out!!! ??? :o My brain fog, stupidity been getting progressively worse of late. x
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Nice treat for the boys foxy ;D
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I don't wear a bra which gets rid of that issue ;D
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What a lush you are ;D
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I know ;D ........ saves undressing by a layer every night ::)
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I just put my sunglasses on to read a recipe. Thought, crikey my vision's getting worse! ;D
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;D
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Aaaahahahahaha reminds me of when I was driving, things were a bit blurry and I thought,oh no,I'm needing new driving glasses,needless to say,I'd forgot to put them on ;D
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;D ;D. don't know about a treat jaypo, more of a shock!! The glasses thing is a reoccuring theme with me too, cant find them, oh already put them on! ::)
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Yep,or on top of your head ::)
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Exactly. x
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I've wandered round the house demanding to know if anyone had seen my phone. Which was in my hand...
::)
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You ladies crack me up 🤣
My latest for today,
I waa looking at my undies as I sat on the toilet,
these look different no extra material at the crotch, wow that’s interesting that they are making undies different now.
Three hours late and more toilet visits I realised my undies were inside out, and I just thought these ones were special ;D
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There's not a lot of hope here is there :lol:
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Lyncola, I put mine on inside out today too!! Never looked at them closely, realised the label was on the outside! ;D
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Reminds me of When we were on our cruise last year,very posh evening,so I had on a lovely dress and wore a bolero style jacket over the top,sat there and this lady came up to me and whispered,dear,your top is on inside out aaaaarrghhhhh speak about embarrassed,here's me thinking I was looking glam,my OH never noticed either,pair of blind bats ;D
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I drove to work in my slippers. Didn't even realise till I got there then had to turn round and go home... ;D
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:rofl: I'm so glad it's not just me!! x
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I would have gone to work 2 C how many people actually noticed ;)
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I'm on here as well as communcating via mobile with my neighbour. I began replying to her mobile message on here ;D .......
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As many of you know I love my bubble bath with a Very Good Book and cuppa ;D. I excelled myself the other night: thick heavy book perched on the side of the bath as I reached for the cuppa :o. I think that the book will be OK having hung on the radiator since :-\
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Wasn't watership down was it clkd? Yep,I'm still on form ;D
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:medal: :lol:
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I went to remove crockery from the dishwasher this morning but they weren't clean :-\. Apparently I hadn't put them through a wash cycle ::). Done now. ;D
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Oh, no
no,no,no..... stupid stupid woman....
I've been doing the whole big hair removal thing this morning, my god it takes a long time nowadays! Got bored, thought i'd take a break, came downstairs to put the kettle on, watch the news, check the weather. You know how you can sometimes forget that you're not properly dressed? Just wandering around in t-shirt and knickers? And you know how sometimes the postman knocks on the door when he's got something for you that won't fit through the letter box?
I'm trying to kid myself that he might not have noticed.
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:bouncing: I bet you're the talk of the sorting office !!
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Nice treat for him though ;D
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:clapping: :rofl:
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Earlier I repeated my 'empty the dishwasher' scenario and wondering why the crocks weren't cleaned >:( ::)
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Oh... so you think he probably did notice then? OK, so i'll try to look on the bright side, best i can come up with is "good job i put big pants on today". Hmmm, that doesn't seem to help much.
Thanks Jaypo, that's a nice thought, but he's a good 25 years younger than me so maybe not! More likely he's in need of counselling.
I wonder how often it happens though. I wonder if he knows it was a meno-moment. What if he just thinks i'm a dirty old woman. I'm never going to know, am I?
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Aaahahaha sounds like a soft porn movie ;D. ........ not that I'd know,you understand ;D
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MayB a small token in an envelope in January with a "I'm sorry" note ? :D
It probably brightened up his Year 8)
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I just saw him coming down the path, wanted to hide but thought that's just putting it off, so i opened the door, big smile, said Good morning and wished him a happy xmas. And he was his usual self, no smirking, no funny looks or anything.
Phew....now forget it and move on. Act like a normal sane person, at least for a while, until the next time!
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:lol: he didn't show signs of rings under his eyes from not sleeping then ;). Did he show signs of disappointment :whist:
I'm waiting for my stupid moment ...... but I will blame it on that strange woman ;)
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Best way to do it befuddled,acting like this is completely normal behaviour for you ;D
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You know, it wasn't that long ago i had a hissy fit and burst into tears because i dropped a teaspoon on the floor, now i can embarrass myself in front of someone i see half a dozen times a week, and i can laugh about it. Partly down to the hrt, but also in a big way down to you lot. Big, big thanks for that, you keep my sanity intact!
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I took the scissors to my hair :o
:oops: :stupid:
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So now you can answer the door half naked and the Postman will be looking at your hair... ;D. maybe...
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:rofl: no half measures here, I sleep naked :D
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Better hope OH gets there first!
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I wouldn't want to disappoint :whist: our postie is usually a female ;)
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Hello Everyone, not been on here for a bit but thought I'd share the sad story of my efforts to make breakfast the other day.
Eggy bread.... Found 2 eggs but couldn't find the dozen I'd bought. Looked everywhere in the fridge and asked husband if he'd seen them. Started to believe I'd imagined buying them. Husband checked everywhere that I might have left them : the car, washing machine, my handbag, the downstairs loo, shopping trolley & bags in the cupboard....
Couldn't find them & decided that I'd probably forgotten to buy them.
He found them a couple of hours later, in the fridge on the shelf next to the empty box of eggs I'd used in the morning 🙄
I'm Peri-Meno & on HRT...... 😳 and doomed😆
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Oooh Ollie, i love eggy bread, haven't had it for ages. That's tomorrow's breakfast sorted.
I think there's something a bit strange about fridges, I spend a fair bit of time crouched down in front of mine. Husband threw a cushion on the floor the other day, he said "well, you spend a fair amount of time staring into it, you might as well be comfortable"
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😆🤣🤣🤣
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;D. - it's your best light without looking in a mirror?
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... and it's a nice cool spot. And it's where i keep two my favourite things - cheese and chocolate spread.
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Looking for my reading glasses everywhere,
Sat down, CRUNCH, :o sat on them, now I've found them, BROKEN!!! 😤😡. 😂🤷♀️
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:o :'(
I have done that several times in recent years :-\.
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No much wonder they're broken ;D
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Left the tin lid off the dustbin full of peanuts for the birds - then it rained over night >:(
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Bet you have some fat and happy squirrels now!
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;D. better than the rats we've apparently been feeding :o ::)
I did have a mouse last year that had got through the hole in the top of the plastic lid : sat quite happily, munching :D
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My OH couldn't find his scissors anywhere,searched high and low,then suddenly I remembered I'd taken them to the hay shed to snip a hay bales twine,so I tiptoed out and sure enough,there were the scissors so I've sneaked them back in and put a book on top of them ;D well,he never moves things to find things,so really it's all his fault ;D
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How long B4 he goes to buy another pair ;D
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Every time our scissors go missing I am accused of leaving them outside when I've cut the horse's tail ::) What, moi?
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OH! you have a horse :o ........ do tell ;D
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CLKD, I was going to write "rats", but thought i might offend so changed it to squirrels
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My OH couldn't find his scissors anywhere,searched high and low,then suddenly I remembered I'd taken them to the hay shed to snip a hay bales twine,so I tiptoed out and sure enough,there were the scissors so I've sneaked them back in and put a book on top of them ;D well,he never moves things to find things,so really it's all his fault ;D
I used to say "have you looked properly" when mine opened a cupboard door and then asked me where something was without moving anything first. Now I just look at him and he says "I'll go and look properly"
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;D ............
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Haha no befuddled, I like belittling my OH by going to the cupboard where he can't find something and very dramatically moving an item to uncover what it was he was looking for and walk off shaking my head ;D
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Has he sussed yet?
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No don't think so,he found them though and said oh they're here all the time, I said,oh,that's good,had to leave the room though as I can't lie very well ;D
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I couldn't lie to save my Life :o
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"I like belittling my OH" ..... Jaypo, you horrid mean woman, I'd never dream of doing somethi............ Ok, I would but I don't, only because I can't win that one, until the balance of stupidity shifts back to how it was before all this started.
Sometimes though, when i know it's me who's lost something, i ask him what he's done with it. If I sound confident enough he'll probably believe that it was him.
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;D ;D Yes,that's me befuddled ;D
Love him really but don't tell him I said that
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My OH was looking for the red sauce for his chips, the other day.
I said, have you looked in the fridge door, that's where I keep it?
Off he trotted again, ...No, it's not there! ....He even got our son to look for it too.
Both came back in to me, ...No, it's not there!
Out I went to the fridge, opened the door, and I'm praying, Please be there, Please be there,
and there it was, in the fridge door with other sauces.! 🤨
I swear, men can't see past the end of their noses! 🤣😂
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Yep. It's because women run around after them ?
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So true clkd
I was making my OH a coffee just now,pours in the milk,did my tea,picked up the milk and walked to his office with it,he said,I'd prefer a coffee if that's ok,coffee still sitting in the kitchen,my,I'm seriously losing the plot
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;D
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I just smeared thrush cream through my hair, thought it was Vitapoint. Can't be bothered to was it again.
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Oh - hope you don't get another thrush fly in to make a nest ;-)
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...another?.... you mean there might already be some in there?
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;D
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If they begin to sing you'll know how many ;)
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No need to worry until they key hungry and pull worms out of your brain :)
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;D
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Worms in my brain? - now that would explain a lot of the stuff that's been happening in there lately.
Washed the cream out now, hair feels nicer than it has done for ages. Might be something in this....
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B4 and after 'photos .?
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Oh this thread is making me feel so much better! Honestly been feeling the last 12 months like I was getting dementia (not joking, it was a serious concern, have a family member with it). That along with just plain stupid stuff that has my husband telling me he's concerned with where my head is at lately! So I knew it wasn't just me imagining my own cloudy thinking!
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Nope. Join the Club :welcomemm:
There's an Strange Woman in my House too - watch out for her ;D
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Hey Aveline, next time he looks at you funny, or asks you why you're being weird maybe sit him down and make him read a few pages of this. He might start to think that you are actually relatively normal. Or prepare him for the fact that there's worse to come!
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Us lot make EVERYONE else seem normal ;D
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Just out of interest, what proportion of your stupid things do you ladies tell your husbands about? I've always thought of myself as a basically honest person, but when I think of all the things i didn't tell him about, maybe not so much. Would be good to know if i'm more or less honest than the average.
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Haha I can't hide all the stupid things I do from my OH
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I've been relatively non-stupid lately, but i saw something today that made everything i've done seem trivial. I was walking towards a fellow dog walker who was about to pick up after her dog. She bent down, froze and then started swearing. I thought maybe her back had gone, but then she straightened up and showed me what she'd done. One hand covered by poo-bag - empty - the other hand with glove on - holding lump of poo. I tried not to laugh, I really really did try........
I'm not sure it was a meno thing, she's about the right age though, and i did feel for her, but i must admit it made me feel better knowing i'm not the worst!!
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It could have been worse, at least she was wearing a glove. And she would have had a nice warm hand... ;D
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Yeah, and it was a nice solid lump instead of a squishy one!
So if I go out one day forgetting to put my handwarmer in my pocket .........
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I can top that! A bag with a hole in .......... bugga :-X
Also, I couldn't pick up after anyone else's dog :-X
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Oh noooo I've done that too clkd and it was my German shepherd I was picking up after, I got it under my nails and everything........excuse me whilst I go to barf up
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I'm eating PIZZA :o :-X
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Oops sorry ;D
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:sick02:
:D
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.....and then there's the times that they get the danglies after eating grass and you can only watch it swinging about for so long before you just have to put a bag over your hand and grab it and try to ease it out ...........
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Aaawwwww befuddled!!! 🤢🤢🤢🤢 ;D ;D
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Oh it's breakfast time ;D. My Jack Russell was a bugga for that ::).
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My horse ate a hay bale piece of twine,just watched as the farmer gingerly pulled it out,was like one of those magic tricks ;D
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Now that's dangerous, horses have long legs and large hooves!
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Ha,my old horse was a good boy :-*
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Even so ;D
Stupid for him to eat it in the first place but they can't spit ?
Last night I cracked the bone under my knee on the edge of the bath. An OUCH moment and it's sore now. Fortunately a brisk walk after Breakfast helped loosen it up.
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Horses not known for their intelligence,probably why I love them ;D
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Does the same apply for OH?? ;D
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He's slightly more intelligent than a horse .......slightly ;D
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Perhaps he has nice furry ears? 😁
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Donkeys have lovely ears, and spaniels. Human ears are just such weird looking things.
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I have a bit of cleaning to do now. I put a couple of eggs on the worktop. One of them rolled off and smashed on the floor, that's ok, easy to clean up. But then i saw the other one was heading the same way, so i lunged towards it to catch it but missed, and batted it up towards the wall. Splattered all over the wall, the clock, the window. One little egg, so much mess!
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:o ............
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Perhaps he has nice furry ears? 😁
Not sure that what's coming out of his ears could be classed as fur sheila ;D
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:sick02: That's an image I don't need jaypo!
Befuddled you need that spanial, my dog is excellent at clearing up spilt food.
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Mine would have been there B4 I dropped the eggs ;D in fact the cat may well have helped roll 1 to the edge of the counter top ;)
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:sick02: That's an image I don't need jaypo!
Befuddled you need that spanial, my dog is excellent at clearing up spilt food.
Already got a couple of them Sheila. Good for cleaning the floor, not sure how to get them to do the walls though.
:o ............
CLKD why shocked? Is that not a normal kind of thing to be happening in your house? It is around here, two clumsy people and two mad dogs in one household. Would be unusual if we went a whole week without something happening......
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;D. - :o - = OH!
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My OH always teases me as I can admittedly say some pretty stupid things ;D But today he was just going out to the garden to wash his car and he said.....would you like me to shut the door,I said,no thanks and he said.....so you want it left open then? Wonder if eggheads would like another super brain on their programme ;D
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I had a lovely warm bubble bath this morning. Lots of suds so reached for a mug to pour over my body to swamp the suds into the water :o at the Very Last Moment I realised it was half a cup of very cold tea left over from last night ....... could have been a Disaster Dahling ;D
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I left the tap running in the kitchen sink, with the plug in. When I went back out, it was all running over into the middle sink, 😲 luckily, that plug wasn’t in. 😉 I was saved from a telling off! 🤨😂
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I have to do 1 thing at a time or I would be leaving taps running too! or bread under the grill, or ........
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Dropping things. ;D
I drop nearly everything. 🤷🏼♀️
OH said, I’d be good working in a China shop. ;D
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I could say ....yes Jill,we know all about your knickers but I won't,I'm obviously way too classy for that kinda talk ;D
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;D ;D
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What you laughin at Sheila ;D ;D
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I love your sense of humour :)
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Wasn't sure if you were laughing at no knickers Jill or me being classy ;D
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Ahhhh, I don’t wear knickers! :na:
Can’t you smell me? 😷
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🤢🤢
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Whhaattttt? Smells lovely I do.
Lavender! 🤣😂
I just can’t stop talking tonight, ;D everything I’m thinking, I’m saying. 🤷🏼♀️ ;D
I’ve caught the yap bug! ;D
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Could someone please lock Jill in a cupboard,her HRT is kicking in ;D
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Oh, Christ, been in the cupboard all night. Whose bright idea was that?
Even the mice got fed up of my chitter chatter, and left! 😫. 😂
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I've yet to do something stupid today ...... where's that Old Woman ;)
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Bought a new Hoover the other day but it only came with one hoover bag,so I took the code down for OH to order more bags,he goes,it doesn't seem to make these any more,you sure it's H47? Me....eh yes, I can read you know,so he goes and takes a look......H74 oh god,the humiliation ;D
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;D .......... we bought 2 sharks, 1 upstairs, 1 down - there's posh :D. No bags required.
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We have a bagless hoover upstairs which is fine,no dogs up there but downstairs where the dogs are,the bagless ones tend to pong a bit and I was forever cleaning it,with the bags,all the smells are IN it then into the bin.
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Oh doggy pong ;D - a quick squirt of 'frebreeze' will sort that ;-)
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I have a Henry (well, actually a Hetty). Ran out of bags but seems to work just as well without them. It's brilliant, it swallows everything.
Shark - swallow everything including fingers??
Doggy pong - only a problem when it's rolled in fox poo. Now that does stink.
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I've never rolled in fox poo - yet. Fell in a dike .......... dog wasn't bothered, she ran on ahead ;D
Shark - if it grabs anything it shouldn't it shuts off. I love 'em. Not light though as the battery is in the handle.
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Ha,looked earlier,it's a shark we have upstairs,they're good vacuums,not that we have much mess upstairs.
Omg my dogs roll in fox poop,it's right into the bath for them 🤢
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Tomato ketchup to get rid of fox poo ;-)
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We have the G tech range as do inlaws wouldn't see past them. OH recently bought the canine version (due to my hair shedding, I was told!!) ;D ;D ;D
Recently decorated kitchen couldn't for the life of me find the tie backs and wall hooks, insisted OH had put them somewhere and couldn't remember. Found them a week later in a colinder in kitchen cupboard - I'd put them there to keep them safe (& paint free!!). Grovelling apology to OH. ??? ::) x
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At least you found them ;). Did OH accept the apology?
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No option!! ;D ;D
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:lol:
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Haha omg foxy, I do this all the time,I'll just put such n such there,to keep it out of the way,then for the life of me,can't remember where I've put it,there's not much hope is there ;D
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I've done a 'nearly' stupid thing twice during the week: our dishwasher and laundry machine stand side-by-side as do the appropriate powders. So in my head I'm thinking "Laundry first, I can hang it on the line; then the dishwasher can go on this evening". Picked up the dishwasher powder :o but fortunately realised ::).
This morning, turn that thought around, picked up the laundry powder to put into the dishwasher .......... fortunately realised ........
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I accidentally rang my mate Jaypo. ;D
Instead of texting her. ::)
Was a lovely chat anyway. ;D ;)
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;D. was she out of bed yet?
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Excuse me clkd? ;D
Yes,always nice to hear your best friend going oh Christ oh S@#T when she rings you ;D
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:whist:
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🤣😂
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Turned on the bath taps last night, sat on the loo and wondered why there wasn't much depth - hadn't put the plug in :bang: good job that I hadn't gone to hang clothes into the cupboard or to make the bed ;D
2day I saw a puddle on the seat so it went through my mind that I ought not sit there. Guess what :o
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You did. :rofl:
Oh said, I’ll have fish fingers tonight for my dinner. I fancy that. ......ok I said.
I made him a piece of fish like from the chippy instead. ;D
Afterwards, he said, I really enjoyed them fishfingers. 😱
Then the penny dropped! ;D ;D
Ooppsssss. ;D
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At which point did OH realise ;D
... and yep, I sat on the puddle ::)
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I picked up 'country file' magazine in the week, the cover 'photo of meadow flowers attracted me: DH and I checked out but when I got home, I remembered that I have it on subscription >:( ::) - the power of a 'photo, hey!
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Knickers :o - stepped into them, felt 'odd', stepped out, couldn't see a problem. Was uncomfortable all of yesterday >:(. They were on the wrong way ............ ;D :o
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Just like my little GS! But he was proud of himself! At least you remembered to put them on!
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;D. The gusset was in the wrong place ........ somehow ::)
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You just need a slight adjustment. Wear then on your head instead and it doesn't matter where the gusset is ;D
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;D. would any1 notice I wonder ;D
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Eating toast and marmalade whilst typing doesn't seem 2 B a good idea ;D everything is sticky :o
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Thanks Sheila,going to start wearing mine as a face mask ;D
Least it wasn't syrup clkd
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;D
Syrup - haven't eaten sponge pudding etc. for years
Keyboard still sticky :D
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Have this miniature tester perfume from Estée Lauder in a pink bottle and the way I put it on is by holding it against my neck and run it back and forth,didn't notice until it was too late that I'd just put pink lipstick on instead ;D
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;D. have you woken up yet ;D - do U usually spray lipstick, that's novel :lol:
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Ha no no,the perfume isn't a spray,it's just a little square bottle with a hole in the top :)
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New look for 2021, different 2 the 😷 ;-)
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Have this miniature tester perfume from Estée Lauder in a pink bottle and the way I put it on is by holding it against my neck and run it back and forth,didn't notice until it was too late that I'd just put pink lipstick on instead ;D
that's awesome ;D ;D
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No CC that's stooooooooooooopid ;D
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Oh yuk >:(. My morning statin stuck to the roof of my mouth :-X :madeyes: the taste is foul >:(
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I'm not sure: but we think that I left the car key on top of the Council bin all night :-\. I can't remember back to yesterday afternoon other than putting items in the bin. I may/not have had the key in my hand ......... couldn't find it in the house and there was 1 on top of the bin when we went outside ........... fortunately the car was there.
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;D. not me. This time ;D
DH put our Council bin out early - then fetched it in 'cos he thought that it had been emptied ........ wrong ::). We rarely have much in the landfill bin any way - rubbish apparently goes to an incinerator system digester thingy .........
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Get this,today, I tried to put my reading glasses on top of my long distance ones,oh gosh,there's no hope
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Oh I do that about twice a day - never works ;D
I've eaten too many cheese straws :-X
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My mum had Alzheimers and lately I have been wondering whether I will get it because I do things like walking into a room and forgetting what I wanted etc. My friend’s Dad also had alzheimers but was a lot worse than my Mum and I broached the subject with her. We are the same age. She confided that she is also terrified of getting Alzheimers.
The first sign with my Mum was a huge deterioration in her handwriting, which had previously been beautiful. She took to writing in capital letters and the line of writing sloped downhill. She then started not wanting to speak to people on the phone and also wasn’t confident handling her own money in shops.
It is depressing to be honest.
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That's Nature in the raw, sadly. We must live as much as we can, around C-19 - so that we enjoy the moment :hug:
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Looking for my reading glasses which I was already wearing :-\
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I've done that with my sunglasses. I wear them on my head when I don't need them outside, then I go nuts trying to find them.
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What are we like ;D
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When I say......... I can't find my spex ANYWHERE, I know by the look passed between my OH and daughter,that they're on my head ;D
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I read that as Spandex - need to find my glasses :rofl:
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;D I know exactly where my spandex pants are
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In the drawer in the spare bedroom :-X
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Not just us women who do daft things. Today me navigating with the help of satnav. Both said next left at a crossroads. DH went straight on. I said that I had said left. He said that he didn’t think that left! So when is left not left?! :o
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:rofl: :rofl: mine is left handed and still doesn't know ::)
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Well: last night I decided to have some supper: butter on some freshly baked bread. On the side of the plate I added two white tablets, somehow 1 got swept up with the butter :( :o :-X
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Well,today,as I passed the bedroom mirror, I saw a dark spot on my chest,blimey,that wasn't there yesterday,omg, I thought...I've got one of those melanomas :'( so I quickly went to the magnifying mirror and......it was a bit of chocolate which had fallen from my bikky ;D Anxiety attack avoided
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:lol: in a house with dogs, how could that last long on your chin ;D
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Haha,yep,it's not often they miss a tiny morsel ;D
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Chocolate wouldn't touch my chin ;D
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DH has started adding thick marmalade to his morning porridge after it's cooked: almost, but not quite, dropped some into his cuppa instead of his bowl ;D :-X
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Marmalade!?!? In his porridge!?!? Sassanach!!! ;D ;D
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Yep :rofl:
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Just today at work...we had leftover cut veggies from the afternoon snack. I put them in a storage bag and left myself a sticky note to not forget to bring them home at the end of my shift...guess what I did.... ::)
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;D I do that all the time C.C the number of times I've put letters for posting IN A PLACE SO I WONT FORGET to take them,then walk right past them ;D
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I thought I put my cream in the bathroom. I could not find it anywhere. It was in my recycling bag! Thank goodness I realised before it was recycled.
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That would be ice cream ?
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That would be ice cream ?
No, it was hand cream. ;D
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Haha, I'm now soooooo bad at misplacing things,the first place I look is the bin,when I lose something ;D ;D
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Haha, I'm now soooooo bad at misplacing things,the first place I look is the bin,when I lose something ;D ;D
I will be sure to look in the bin right away next time. ;D
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It's a safe bet flossie ;D
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I was taking laundry out of the washing machine. As I took the laundry out, I found the nail clippers! How on earth did I manage to put them in there. I only use them in the bathroom. ::)
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;D well it makes a change from the bin
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;D well it makes a change from the bin
Lol! Well remembered! ;D
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This isn't me doing something stupid but my OH,in Tesco today and I couldn't find my makeup wipes,so I said to him,go see if you can find any,like nivea or Johnson's or whatever,off he goes and comes back looking all pleased with himself and says.......are these them? And he hands me a packet of femfresh wipes ;D ;D I'm saying.......erm nope,those aren't for your face honey,poor thing,he promptly plonked them down on the shelve,blimey,hadn't laughed like that for ages
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This isn't me doing something stupid but my OH,in Tesco today and I couldn't find my makeup wipes,so I said to him,go see if you can find any,like nivea or Johnson's or whatever,off he goes and comes back looking all pleased with himself and says.......are these them? And he hands me a packet of femfresh wipes ;D ;D I'm saying.......erm nope,those aren't for your face honey,poor thing,he promptly plonked them down on the shelve,blimey,hadn't laughed like that for ages
Lol ;D poor thing. He seemed embarassed.
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Oh that could have been fun had you turned that on it's head ;D
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Haha he was mortified flossie much to my amusement.....obviously ;D
Won't tell you what jillydoll is calling me now clkd but it begins with F and ends with face ;D
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Send me a PM maybe ;D
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Well,Ms Craddocks first name ;D ;D
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That dates us :lol:
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Yeah? What’s the matter with Fanny face then? 🤣😂🤣😂
I’d have shouted at mr Jaypo, …..No, not them, they’re for your undercarriage silly billy! 🤣🤭🤭
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Awwww we can always trust Jill to lower the tone ;D ;D
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I suspect that Mr jaypo knew exactly what he had picked up, knowing that he won't be asked again ;D
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Haha no no he didn't clkd, I said read what it says on the back,then I just saw his face change ;D we were like two 10 year olds laughing away at the rude lady items in the middle of Tesco
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At least he brought something back, my OH would’ve just said nah, they’ve got none, which proves Mr Jaypo, DID look. 🧐
Looked in the wrong section, 😂 but still looked. 😂
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DID SOMEONE MENTION MRS CRADDOCK?
I thought I would tell you about a cat I once had called Fanny,¦now I didn't name her that - it was an ex neighbours cat. Fanny kind of adopted us, she started by sleeping by our fire every night & then we started feeding her. Well that was it, she wouldn't go home to her owners. I had a word with our neighbour who said they were quite happy for us to have her as she was obviously happier with us then with them - so that was it Fanny moved in.
Well things started to get embarrassing, I would call her in at night by shouting at the top of my voice “HERE FANNY, HERE FANNY†& although I didn't think it was very funny any guests we had staying were very amused.
There was a day at the office where we saw a tortoiseshell coloured cat from the window & there was a young lad in the office at the time & I said “oh look that's the same colour as my Fanny, he went bright red (& so did I).
Another time we were in a pub & the landlord had called last orders. He let his pet dog come out to the bar to say hello to everyone & this dog started to sniff around me & I stupidly said “Oh he can smell my Fanny†(honest I did).
When we went to our local, (yes yet another pub) the landlord use to ask how my Fanny was doing, which was very embarrassing I can tell you when my local was full of non locals. The looks I got.
But the funniest of all was when I had to take her to the vets because she had some sores on her back that were weeping. I saw a German vet who examined her & he said to leave them alone for a week to see if they would dry up on their own & to make an appointment for a weeks time.
I took her back the following week & the vet prescribed some cream as the sores had not cleared up. When we went to pay the bill, the receptionist was giggling, so I asked her why, & she replied:
We had a right old laugh this morning, on the appointments list for today, the vet had written - Mrs Smith, 10.30, check Fanny for soresâ€â€¦.
When she gave me the cream, the words “apply to Fanny sparingly twice a day†were written on the packet.
Fanny is long gone now but she left a lot of fond & amusing memories.
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Ohhhh just brilliant Cazi. :rofl:
What with you and your fanny, and Mrs fanny face herself, I’m surrounded by Fanny’s. ;D
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I know they're everywhere JD....
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:cat48: :lol: tnx for sharing ......... now where were we
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Oh my cazikins,that was hilarious,thanks for the laugh,the vets one was brilliant.
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DID SOMEONE MENTION MRS CRADDOCK?
I thought I would tell you about a cat I once had called Fanny,¦now I didn't name her that - it was an ex neighbours cat. Fanny kind of adopted us, she started by sleeping by our fire every night & then we started feeding her. Well that was it, she wouldn't go home to her owners. I had a word with our neighbour who said they were quite happy for us to have her as she was obviously happier with us then with them - so that was it Fanny moved in.
Well things started to get embarrassing, I would call her in at night by shouting at the top of my voice “HERE FANNY, HERE FANNY†& although I didn't think it was very funny any guests we had staying were very amused.
There was a day at the office where we saw a tortoiseshell coloured cat from the window & there was a young lad in the office at the time & I said “oh look that's the same colour as my Fanny, he went bright red (& so did I).
Another time we were in a pub & the landlord had called last orders. He let his pet dog come out to the bar to say hello to everyone & this dog started to sniff around me & I stupidly said “Oh he can smell my Fanny†(honest I did).
When we went to our local, (yes yet another pub) the landlord use to ask how my Fanny was doing, which was very embarrassing I can tell you when my local was full of non locals. The looks I got.
But the funniest of all was when I had to take her to the vets because she had some sores on her back that were weeping. I saw a German vet who examined her & he said to leave them alone for a week to see if they would dry up on their own & to make an appointment for a weeks time.
I took her back the following week & the vet prescribed some cream as the sores had not cleared up. When we went to pay the bill, the receptionist was giggling, so I asked her why, & she replied:
We had a right old laugh this morning, on the appointments list for today, the vet had written - Mrs Smith, 10.30, check Fanny for soresâ€â€¦.
When she gave me the cream, the words “apply to Fanny sparingly twice a day†were written on the packet.
Fanny is long gone now but she left a lot of fond & amusing memories.
Oh my goodness…….. :drunklaf: I haven’t laughed so much in a while! Thank you. :hapij:
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Oh my goodness…….. :drunklaf: I haven’t laughed so much in a while! Thank you. :hapij:
My pleasure songbird - what a ridiculous name to give a cat but apparently the alternative was Pussy! ;D ;D
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;D
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:'(. DH gave me a £20 note as I didn't have my purse, I needed to buy an engagement card. Turns out to be a very expensive card, when I went to my back jeans pocket .... somehow it had dropped out :o :'(
Years++ ago I picked up a £20 note on an empty hillside, me, :scottie: and Himself - what goes round I suppose?
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:'(. DH gave me a £20 note as I didn't have my purse, I needed to buy an engagement card. Turns out to be a very expensive card, when I went to my back jeans pocket .... somehow it had dropped out :o :'(
Years++ ago I picked up a £20 note on an empty hillside, me, :scottie: and Himself - what goes round I suppose?
Oh no! That is such a shame. :(
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DH once went to a shop to try on some trousers, which fitted well, but when he went to pay, he couldn’t find his wallet. He informed the security staff in the shopping mall (USA), made a report to the local police and cancelled all his cards. A few days later, we went back to pay with my card. DH tried on the trousers he liked and put his hands in the pockets and yes, you’ve guessed it…..his wallet was there! ;D Even after a few days! I think men should get over themselves and carry a bag! Pockets just don’t do the job. I refuse to carry stuff around in my handbag for DH! DH is regularly losing his wallet, keys, glasses……..! Usually around the house, but results in a panic to get out.
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DH once went to a shop to try on some trousers, which fitted well, but when he went to pay, he couldn’t find his wallet. He informed the security staff in the shopping mall (USA), made a report to the local police and cancelled all his cards. A few days later, we went back to pay with my card. DH tried on the trousers he liked and put his hands in the pockets and yes, you’ve guessed it…..his wallet was there! ;D Even after a few days! I think men should get over themselves and carry a bag! Pockets just don’t do the job. I refuse to carry stuff around in my handbag for DH! DH is regularly losing his wallet, keys, glasses……..! Usually around the house, but results in a panic to get out.
;D How lucky the trousers had not been sold! I remember when there was a trend for 'man bags'. I thought they were a great idea. :)
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Unless you're in the habit of leaving your trousers behind (jillydoll may be in trouble here ;D) pockets are so much easier. I never use a bag, anything that doesn't fit in a pocket gets left at home. I always come back with my trousers, sadly the same can't be said a bag. And whoever thought humongous phones were a good idea? My 14 year old Nokia does what I require and fits in a pocket. The new slippery notes are a pita though, I have to wrap round a credit card to stop them slipping out.
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Deep pocket mayB, the Barbour waxed jacket would have been OK but not in the Summer ::)
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Brilliant pockets but I hate waxed jackets. I sweat so much inside them I may as well have got rained on.
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Yes, my new phone is bigger. Why? No chance of putting into my tight jeans pockets anymore! When I go out for a walk in summer, I have to take a small bag, big enough for my phone, keys and inhaler. In winter, my coat pockets suffice. I only used one handbag when I need one. No coordinating with clothes. If I did that, I’d forget something like my wallet or key to the house. They would always be in the wrong bag!
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I co-oridate knickers with T-shirts ;-) and although I have 5 bags, the 1 with most pockets is what I usually carry. Note to Self :-\
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I bought a bag that is ergonomically designed. Still hurts my shoulders if I put much in it. Not carrying cash helps! I do use the little bag a lot, but have got into the habit of taking stuff out of it as I need my keys to get into the house, have to take my inhalers and my phone will ring! Forgot my bag the other day. Felt vulnerable without my phone! I coped for most of my life without one for goodness sake! In my defence, my car keeps flagging up the battery warning light, despite having a new one. It’s running perfectly ok, but will be checked at some point. DH says it’s a loose wire. :-* It would be just my luck if the car broke down when I haven’t got my phone!
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Bags are like houses, it doesn't matter how much space you have you will find 'stuff' to put in until it's full.
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I just stuff everything down my huge cleavage ;D
I can wish can't I?
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I went into a shop a few years back, to try on shoes, left my handbag on the floor with some other bags that were left there which people hadn’t bothered to put back on the rack, shoes were no good so I left.
Carried on shopping with OH, then realised I’d left my handbag somewhere. :o
Three shops I ran into and asked if anyone had found it, then remembered where I’d left it, made a bee line to that shop, and there it was, still on the floor with the others. ;D My purse, cards and money still in it. 🥵
I didn’t hear the last of it for about a week. 😡 ;D
Thing is, I didn’t even like that handbag in the first place! ;D
Good job I wasn’t trying trousers on! ;D😱
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Go on Ju Ju - do share ?
I took the top off my finger last night (sorry if it's breakfast time) ....... bled everywhere :o at the same time knocking over a bottle of water, which went everywhere >:( >:(
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Go on Ju Ju - do share ?
I took the top off my finger last night (sorry if it's breakfast time) ....... bled everywhere :o at the same time knocking over a bottle of water, which went everywhere >:( >:(
Ouch. I hope your finger heals soon.
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Tnx for those kind words. It was a mess! Sore - haven't removed plaster or steri-strips yet. They will ease off when I wash up later.
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Go on Ju Ju - do share ?
I took the top off my finger last night (sorry if it's breakfast time) ....... bled everywhere :o at the same time knocking over a bottle of water, which went everywhere >:( >:(
The >:( was meant to be a ;D! Didn’t check. Not very dexterous fingers.
It really gets in the way when you cut a finger. Plasters, even waterproof ones don’t seem to last long. I cut my little finger on the microwave, but can’t see how! It was out to get me!
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I did think.....gee,it's not often JuJu is angry ;D
Yeouch clkd,don't eat any salt & vinegar crisps with it will you :o
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Ha, I was thinking the >:( was for me. Something I’d said. ;D ::)
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:o ........ I have a packet, how did U know :D
One has to be aware of household appliances I've found as I age, as well as door handles. :-\
PHEW ......... thought mayB you had joined the silly things club Ju Ju ::)
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You should talk to my children! I have a degree in doing daft things! I am a fully paid up member of the doing silly things club!
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Does it cost much per year .........
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Just a banana skin! :banana:
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:lol:
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Please someone, glue my lips together ;D. We have temporary neighbours: from Illinois - of course, Deadwood Stage is now an ear worm :o and I'm afraid that I will go into song mode when they appear at the gate ;D. I can see Clamity Jane skimming her bum along that Bar in my mind's eye 8)
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Please someone, glue my lips together ;D. We have temporary neighbours: from Illinois - of course, Deadwood Stage is now an ear worm :o and I'm afraid that I will go into song mode when they appear at the gate ;D. I can see Clamity Jane skimming her bum along that Bar in my mind's eye 8)
:rofl: Yeehaaaaa..........
Don't forget Wild Bill Hickok 🤠
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It's going to be potentially SOOOOO embarrassing ;D
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Please someone, glue my lips together ;D. We have temporary neighbours: from Illinois - of course, Deadwood Stage is now an ear worm :o and I'm afraid that I will go into song mode when they appear at the gate ;D. I can see Clamity Jane skimming her bum along that Bar in my mind's eye 8)
;D ;D It'll be ok CLKD as Deadwood was set in Dakota not Illinois. ;) ;)
Great place it is too. Went in a bar there years ago & said "line them up....
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Line them up Pardner.......surely cazikins ;D
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Just come back from the Windy City
The Windy City is mighty pretty but she ain't got what we got
No sirreee .......... Windy City being Chicago Illinois.
Which is mentioned in one of the lines but haven't got there yet ........ ;D
They have CRITTERS in Illionois. Things that go bang in the night :o
Here we go:
The windy city is mighty pretty
But they ain't got what we got
I'm tellin' ya, boys
We got more life in Deadwood City
Than in all of Illinois There's more, lots of it ;D
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Line them up Pardner.......surely cazikins ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D yep something very similar jaypo :-X :-X & make it a double. xx
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I am seriously losing the plot....nearly took my make up off with a femfresh wipe ???
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If you must put make up on your... ;D
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There's a joke about that somewhere ;D. The Wash Cloth
I was due for an appointment with the gynecologist later in the week. Early one morning, I received a call from the doctor's office to tell me that I had been rescheduled for that morning at 9:30 am. I had only just packed everyone off to work and school, and it was already around 8:45 am. The trip to his office took about 35 minutes, so I didn't have any time to spare. As most women do, I like to take a little extra effort over hygiene when making such visits, but this time I wasn't going to be able to make the full effort.
So, I rushed upstairs, threw off my pajamas, wet the wash cloth that was sitting next to the sink, and gave myself a quick wash in that area to make sure I was at least presentable. I threw the wash cloth in the clothes basket, donned some clothes, hopped in the car and raced to my appointment.
I was in the waiting room for only a few minutes when I was called in. Knowing the procedure, as I'm sure you do, I hopped up on the table, looked over at the other side of the room and pretended that I was in Paris or some other place a million miles away.
I was a little surprised when the doctor said, "My, we have made an extra effort this morning, haven't we?" I didn't respond.
After the appointment, I heaved a sigh of relief and went home. The rest of the day was normal .. Some shopping, cleaning, cooking. After school when my 6 year old daughter was playing, she called out from the bathroom, "Mummy, where's my wash cloth?"
I told her to get another one from the cupboard.
She replied, "No, I need the one that was here by the sink, it had all my glitter and sparkles saved inside it."
Never going back to that doctor again........... never.
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She does Shelia. Talk about trout pout with all that cherry lipstick! 🤣😂🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️ :na:
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I'm just ignoring jill and Sheila clkd,they are SOOOOOO rude,you'd never hear me being so vulgar 😇😇😇😇😇😇 ;D ;D ;D
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What d' think of my 'joke'?
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Ha,yes,very good,going to remember that one...........or will I? ;D
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Glitter will go well with the lipstick :)
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You should see when I put mascara on ;D
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;D ;D
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How often do you miss :whist:
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:lol:
So being sleep-deprived you catch yourself putting things in places where they don't belong...like last night I was cleaning up after supper and I was about to put the carton of milk in the cupboard, and the salt and pepper in the fridge...dh asked me if I knew what I was doing. ;D :D
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So being sleep-deprived you catch yourself putting things in places where they don't belong...like last night I was cleaning up after supper and I was about to put the carton of milk in the cupboard, and the salt and pepper in the fridge...dh asked me if I knew what I was doing. ;D :D
I do things like this all the time! Luckily your OH was there or the milk may have gone off. ;D
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Yep,sounds all too familiar,I'm constantly muttering "stupid woman" to myself these days ;D
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:whist:
Whattttt? Whatttttt? ( in a god father kind of accent) ;D
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:lol:
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I had an appointment in a town I’m unfamiliar with other than driving straight through on the main road. I had put the postcode on the satnav, followed instructions successfully until the last bit, but ended up going round in circles. Parked up and decided to walk, again using satnav. It was then I realised I had kept going right from the main road and not left! I have always struggled with lefts and rights! I apologised to the satnav on my phone, having used some savoury language. I was rather late, but the lady I was seeing found my apology hilarious!
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:o. U got home without problems?
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I had an appointment in a town I’m unfamiliar with other than driving straight through on the main road. I had put the postcode on the satnav, followed instructions successfully until the last bit, but ended up going round in circles. Parked up and decided to walk, again using satnav. It was then I realised I had kept going right from the main road and not left! I have always struggled with lefts and rights! I apologised to the satnav on my phone, having used some savoury language. I was rather late, but the lady I was seeing found my apology hilarious!
Aw I struggle with my right and left too. I am glad the lady you were seeing saw the funny side. :)
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Oh me too,was at the optician a week or so ago and when she was doing that....looking into your eye bit,she said,look straight ahead.....look left.......no,your other left ;D
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Yesterday we had a huge rain storm with blustery wind. I had forgotten that the utility room door was open to air the clothing stood inside :o
Fortunately we have a VAX which sucks up water - it took a couple of hours intermittently to find where it had all run to, now the machines are away from the walls so I need to get behind for a good clear up B4 they are pushed back :-\
I had sheets and towels on the floor waiting to be laundered, which soaked up some of the deluge :-\
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Yesterday we had a huge rain storm with blustery wind. I had forgotten that the utility room door was open to air the clothing stood inside :o
Fortunately we have a VAX which sucks up water - it took a couple of hours intermittently to find where it had all run to, now the machines are away from the walls so I need to get behind for a good clear up B4 they are pushed back :-\
I had sheets and towels on the floor waiting to be laundered, which soaked up some of the deluge :-\
Oh no! That must have taken a lot of cleaning up afterwards.
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Yep. Which caused a row this afternoon :'(. He had already made up his mind how to attempt moving the machines back, not taking on board the 3 times: once last night and twice today: I told him that I needed to wash the floor under them first >:(. Then he got huffy when I told him that he didn't need to stand and watch me washing a floor ......... I did the walls behind the machines too ;-).
All done. Now I need to remember to Shut That Door ::)
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Yep. Which caused a row this afternoon :'(. He had already made up his mind how to attempt moving the machines back, not taking on board the 3 times: once last night and twice today: I told him that I needed to wash the floor under them first >:(. Then he got huffy when I told him that he didn't need to stand and watch me washing a floor ......... I did the walls behind the machines too ;-).
All done. Now I need to remember to Shut That Door ::)
Aw I hope you are feeling okay after all that.
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Arguing makes me sad, he simply doesn't listen :poke2: but today I Put Foot Down With Firm Hand!
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Atta girl! ;D Sometimes husbands need a kick in the behind! ::)
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Yep -[ ub togus ubstabce ]: in this instance, he didn't listen. 3 times !
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I have to admire my DH. Years back I reversed into his motorbike and knocked it over. It was a Honda Goldwing…..big and in clear view, like immediately behind the car! All DH said after we pulled it up, was that at least we know we can pick it up between us. Now if he had done that to my bike, had I aspired to own one, he would have to endure my temper! ::) Only the plastic covering on the red lights were damaged, thank goodness.
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Ohhhh. Honda Goldwing. - there's posh. Did U ever go across the UK on it ? Our neighbours have something similar which is polished and cosseted every Sunday, it only goes out on fine days. They did years ago B4 moving here, travel for 3 months across the US staying in Motels on their travels. Apparently it has a radio for the passenger ........ as well as heated seats 8)
My Uncle had a sidecar on his motor cycle, which was OK until he removed it and forgot to put his foot down at a junction ::)
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It was second hand and years ago. Yes, we had some holidays, me on the back. I used to fall asleep. The back seat was like an armchair and DH had had excellent training so I trusted him. Just as well! :o
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OK on a fine day ;D
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When I got up this morning I opened the blinds and saw quite a few people about including a child wearing school uniform. I thought this was really strange for a Sunday. I then checked the date and saw today is Monday! ;D
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May I giggle :lol: gain a day, gain a friend ;)
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How about this one? Absolutely true :o
Going on a lovely cruise at the end of next week so had an appointment at the vet today for the Cockapoo to get his booster and kennel cough treatment.
I drove off (thankfully didn’t quite get to the vets) when I realised the car was Cockapoo-free!!
I had my purse, my keys and his vaccination record but no Cockapoo ;D. Oh dear Lord, when will this daftness end? :o
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Was he smirking when you returned ;D. Or hiding under a bed somewhere ......... does he mind being in Kennels?
I left mine outside the PO - turned round to see this sad face wondering ::)
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He had a look of abandonment on his face ;D
Thankfully my OH wasn't in the house. I'd never live it down :o
The vet thought it was highly amusing! He was ever so good. Never flinched when he was jabbed. Wasn't so keen on kennel cough treatment mind you. £85 ??? Crikey, not cheap!
We have a superb kennel that we use. He has his own TV and luxury bed etc ;D....
He's partial to kids programmes :rofl:
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Our cats used to watch TV ;D
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Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha nice one songbird,even I haven't done that one ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bet you're looking forward to the cruise,I'm soooooooo jealous
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May I giggle :lol: gain a day, gain a friend ;)
I am happy to have made you smile. :)
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How about this one? Absolutely true :o
Going on a lovely cruise at the end of next week so had an appointment at the vet today for the Cockapoo to get his booster and kennel cough treatment.
I drove off (thankfully didn’t quite get to the vets) when I realised the car was Cockapoo-free!!
I had my purse, my keys and his vaccination record but no Cockapoo ;D. Oh dear Lord, when will this daftness end? :o
I have heard of people doing this before! I read about somebody who went into the vets to say she had an appointment and did not notice her dog was not with her until the receptionist asked!
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Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha nice one songbird,even I haven't done that one ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bet you're looking forward to the cruise,I'm soooooooo jealous
I amazed myself, Jaypo - honestly, what a numpty I am ;D
Cannot wait for my cruise. Don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a holiday as much ;)
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Well you deserve it,so enjoy every minute :)
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Will do, Jaypo :parti:
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Did any1 watch Richard Coles on TV recently, he went on a Grief Cruise. Part of an overall liner which looked lush. R U in the lush section Songbird? ;)
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You get cruises for every occasion these days,one of ours we were berthed opposite a ship and I said to my OH blimey some really tall women on that ship,had a look through the binoculars and they were all transvestites & apparently (we were told) that it was in fact a transvetite cruise :D
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You get cruises for every occasion these days,one of ours we were berthed opposite a ship and I said to my OH blimey some really tall women on that ship,had a look through the binoculars and they were all transvestites & apparently (we were told) that it was in fact a transvetite cruise :D
Crikey, I didn’t know that Jaypo :o…
Lush section CLKD? Mais oui! I do like my comfort ;D
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My cruise comfort would be a bath full of bubbles to lay inside and watch the world go by ;-)
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Was changing my address details at my bank today,the teller said can you give me your new post code please,which I did and she said....sorry,that address doesn't seem to exist,I'd only gone and given her the first two letters of my new address but had rattled off my present address numbers,what a balloon ::)
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I was recently talking to someone and she had to ask my age and I said 56, she then replied, oh we have you down as 57 we must have your date of birth wrong!
Turns out for some reason for the last few months, I honestly truly believed I was 56, I am in fact 57!!!!
Dim or what xx
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Does it matter apart from Form filling, I feel 90 in the morning until I've eaten breakfast ;)
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haha and no.
i definately feel the same till coffee kicks in xxx
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When I was putting my slippers on I noticed an L on the sole. I thought how handy that is to help people know which slipper is for their left foot and then I checked the other slipper expecting to see an R. I saw another L and realised L was the size. Large. ;D
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;D
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I was recently talking to someone and she had to ask my age and I said 56, she then replied, oh we have you down as 57 we must have your date of birth wrong!
Turns out for some reason for the last few months, I honestly truly believed I was 56, I am in fact 57!!!!
Dim or what xx
Honestly I stopped counting a few years ago. As far I'm concerned I'm 21 ;D
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When I was putting my slippers on I noticed an L on the sole. I thought how handy that is to help people know which slipper is for their left foot and then I checked the other slipper expecting to see an R. I saw another L and realised L was the size. Large. ;D
imagine if you didn't have a size L foot ;)
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When I was putting my slippers on I noticed an L on the sole. I thought how handy that is to help people know which slipper is for their left foot and then I checked the other slipper expecting to see an R. I saw another L and realised L was the size. Large. ;D
imagine if you didn't have a size L foot ;)
I think I would not have made that mistake if it said M or S. ;D
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I was planning on washing my bed linen today. I went to the laundry basket and it was not there. I was so puzzled. Turns out I had already washed it, dried it and put it away! I cannot remember doing that at all. :D
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No Flossieteacake, you hadn't already done it - the laundry fairy has paid you a visit ;D. If you catch him/her, please send them over to me!
JP x
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;D
I do that sometimes ....... not with laundry but other issues crop up: ??? did I ??? and ??? when ???
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I do that sometimes ....... not with laundry but other issues crop up: ??? did I ??? and ??? when ???
I know that feeling well!
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No Flossieteacake, you hadn't already done it - the laundry fairy has paid you a visit ;D. If you catch him/her, please send them over to me!
JP x
Haha! I will send her to you!
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It's That Strange Woman again ;D
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Any1 aware that my mobile phone is unlikely to switch over the 📺 Channels ;D
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Any1 aware that my mobile phone is unlikely to switch over the 📺 Channels ;D
I am guessing you thought it was the remote! ;D
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That is what I reached for :D .......... however much I shook it, the Channel stayed the same ::)
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Went to put a teaspoon of water into my biryani.
Accidentally turned the tap on FULL.
My bloody biryani was swimming. 🤣😂🤣. ::)
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;D
I went to put a newly dried frying pan in the fridge,in my defence,the fridge IS right next the cupboard where I keep my pans ::)
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Went to put a teaspoon of water into my biryani.
Accidentally turned the tap on FULL.
My bloody biryani was swimming. 🤣😂🤣. ::)
Oh no! Your meal was ruined. :(
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;D
I went to put a newly dried frying pan in the fridge,in my defence,the fridge IS right next the cupboard where I keep my pans ::)
;D
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what's a biryani?
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Did any1 watch The 1 Show skiing article: I am sure that a woman had a Jack Russell in a back pack whilst skiing :-\ :o
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How odd, CLKD. Didn’t see that one :o
Re doing stupid things, oh, where to start :o…..
The number of times I’ve forgotten where my mobile phone is and insist that my hubby phones it to “lead me to it”. Stoopidest place was inside a biscuit tin 😳..
Also forgetting where my car is parked at the supermarket. I run up and down the lanes pressing my remote control key, listening for the “beep”. And lastly……….
Trying to pay for garden centre lunch with my Tesco club card ;D
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How odd, CLKD. Didn’t see that one :o
Re doing stupid things, oh, where to start :o…..
The number of times I’ve forgotten where my mobile phone is and insist that my hubby phones it to “lead me to it”. Stoopidest place was inside a biscuit tin 😳..
Also forgetting where my car is parked at the supermarket. I run up and down the lanes pressing my remote control key, listening for the “beep”. And lastly……….
Trying to pay for garden centre lunch with my Tesco club card ;D
I think a lot of people have tried to pay for things with loyalty cards or in my case years ago, a library card. ;D
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what's a biryani?
It is a spicy curry. :)
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AH - spicy curry ........ ?? cold for breakfast ?? and nope, that's not as stupid as it sounds ;-)
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I had A Moment last night :D. Began running bubbles and water into our bathtub, then realised that the window needed to be shut to stop the draught. However: stepped into the bath + water and had forgotten to undress. Window situated over the bathtub = wet socks :o
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I had A Moment last night :D. Began running bubbles and water into our bathtub, then realised that the window needed to be shut to stop the draught. However: stepped into the bath + water and had forgotten to undress. Window situated over the bathtub = wet socks :o
;D I hate the feeling of wet socks!
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Isn't there a saying about paddling with your socks on ;D
I made my OH his fave dinner last night,it's chicken and bacon in a cheesey cream sauce and later whilst putting stuff in the dishwasher, I realised,no cheese grater,he'd eaten it and thought because he had a cold,that was the reason it tasted bland 🙀 ooops!!
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:rofl: good job I don't do any cooking here :whist:
I hate wet socks too. Several times in recent weeks I've managed to tip the birds' water bowls over ....... :-\. bugga
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Isn't there a saying about paddling with your socks on ;D
I made my OH his fave dinner last night,it's chicken and bacon in a cheesey cream sauce and later whilst putting stuff in the dishwasher, I realised,no cheese grater,he'd eaten it and thought because he had a cold,that was the reason it tasted bland 🙀 ooops!!
;D You can just blame the cold for that.
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and later whilst putting stuff in the dishwasher, I realised,no cheese grater,he'd eaten it and thought because he had a cold,that was the reason it tasted bland
He ate the cheese grater?!
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and later whilst putting stuff in the dishwasher, I realised,no cheese grater,he'd eaten it and thought because he had a cold,that was the reason it tasted bland
He ate the cheese grater?!
;D
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That would be taking roughage intake to extremes :lol:
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Haha,sorry,bad grammar Wrensong but if he doesn't stop moaning he WILL be eating the cheese grater ;D
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:rofl: how's his 'cold' today?
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I'm ever so glad it's not just me :o. To date I've..
Brought dog poo home rather than depositing in dog poo bin..
Left my mobile phone in freezer
Put canderel in potatoes rather than salt
That's all I'm willing to disclose :rofl:
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Oh Blame that Woman :D
Canderel - didn't know that 1 could still buy that!
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I mixed some Ovestin with Sylk moisturiser on my hand but instead of applying it, I washed my hands! ::)
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All,seems normal to me Flossie ;D
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Yep. Nowt wrong there Flossie ;D
I did my weekly shop at Tesco this morning, went to butchers for lamb rack and porkie sausages 😋, picked up my prescription and also my dress from the dry cleaners. I was ever so pleased with myself - smug I was ::).....no brain fog incident for me today! However....
Hubby was awaiting my return (apparently the TV remote was missing!) "Don't blinking look at me" I said!
I emptied my bag (confident I was not the culprit). Oh no! There it was! In my defence it looks a teeny bit like my mobile ;D ;D
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No no songbird,your OH planted it there.......surely? ;D
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:rofl: Yep. That's it Jaypo..
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;D your OH would have to get up to change the channels like the old days.
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You had to get up to change channels!?! I'm way to young to remember that 8)
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You had to get up to change channels!?! I'm way to young to remember that 8)
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No she’s not, she remembers when teles first came out. ;D🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
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In black and white, fuzzy ...... very small, in the corner of Granny's sitting room ;D
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No she’s not, she remembers when teles first came out. ;D🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
;D
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;D your OH would have to get up to change the channels like the old days.
That's right Flossie. He was worn out ;D
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No she’s not, she remembers when teles first came out. ;D🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
You'd better run Jill coz this 🥾 will be going where the sun don't shine
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So this morning my brain fog bit a new low...
Whilst walking to the living room I went the wrong direction and hit my head on a beam under the stairs.... We have lived here 10 years and I walked in totally the wrong way. I knew where I was going, but no idea how to get there.
Bump on head. Hoped it may have knocked some sense into me. But v doubtful.
Still, better than last week when someone asked for my name. Nope🙄. I couldn't remember at first. Maybe more Easter egg will help?!
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So this morning my brain fog bit a new low...
Whilst walking to the living room I went the wrong direction and hit my head on a beam under the stairs.... We have lived here 10 years and I walked in totally the wrong way. I knew where I was going, but no idea how to get there.
Bump on head. Hoped it may have knocked some sense into me. But v doubtful.
Still, better than last week when someone asked for my name. Nope🙄. I couldn't remember at first. Maybe more Easter egg will help?!
Ouch! I hope you are not in pain. I would say more Easter egg is a very good idea. :)
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Cracking a choc egg open as we speak. Well I say an egg....I mean the last one😂
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I've had a silly day thus far. A couple of weeks go I put a tray of water in a corner where I rarely step, at the time I wondered whether 'this is the right place'. Last week I manoeuvred round it without problems, this morning however :-\ - stepped back, so had to change jeans, socks and shoes.
I stood my lunch plate on the arm of the settee as I have done 100s of times, not this morning though: caught it with my elbow so it crashed onto our newly laid wood-effect floor >:(. I managed to scope up the chips ........ everything else, out to the birds ::)
You probably realise that right now I am sitting, very, very still ;D
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I've had a silly day thus far. A couple of weeks go I put a tray of water in a corner where I rarely step, at the time I wondered whether 'this is the right place'. Last week I manoeuvred round it without problems, this morning however :-\ - stepped back, so had to change jeans, socks and shoes.
I stood my lunch plate on the arm of the settee as I have done 100s of times, not this morning though: caught it with my elbow so it crashed onto our newly laid wood-effect floor >:(. I managed to scope up the chips ........ everything else, out to the birds ::)
You probably realise that right now I am sitting, very, very still ;D
Oops!
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Yep ;D and a lot of bad language .........
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Just tried to take off my make up with a femfresh wipe 😳
All sympathetic comments gratefully accepted
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Just tried to take off my make up with a femfresh wipe 😳
All sympathetic comments gratefully accepted
Didnt your husband once get those mixed up with make up wipes?
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He doesn't wear make up Flossie ;D ;D
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He doesn't wear make up Flossie ;D ;D
;D sorry, I thought once your husband had to look for make up wipes for you in a shop and he picked those instead. I think I was getting you mixed up with another member.
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Aaaaahahahaha yes yes,so he did,that was in Tesco's,omg I just burst out laughing remembering that,heyho obviously it's an easy mistake ;D In my defence,face wipes and femfresh sit right next to each other in the bathroom 🙄
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Aaaaahahahaha yes yes,so he did,that was in Tesco's,omg I just burst out laughing remembering that,heyho obviously it's an easy mistake ;D In my defence,face wipes and femfresh sit right next to each other in the bathroom 🙄
Haha, I am glad I made you laugh. ;D
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A healthy vagina doesn't require 'wipes'! Any1 remember 'femfresh' spray, it had a distinctive odour >:( so everyone in the house hold knew >:( :(
Wipe are useful on holiday when camping ......... disposed correctly, of course.
So far today I've not even thought of doing anything stupid : however, there's still time :-X
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Nowt wrong with me nether regions thanks ;D I just find they make me feel cleaner and fresher.....although NOT my face ;D
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Just tried to take off my make up with a femfresh wipe 😳
All sympathetic comments gratefully accepted
:rofl:
Next you'll be popping a bit of blusher on yer flower, Jaypo ;D ;D
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Yes songbird?? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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As long as U don't reach for the "Grow More" for the OH ;)
I was intending to meet with someone on Sunday - it wasn't arranged. Fortunately, as I didn't remember until the early hours of yesterday :-\
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Now, where did I put that Grow More? 🤔
:rofl:
A shopping list is a must for me now. I've no chance of remembering everything I need without it :o
And phone alarms! I'm cooking rice right now for the cockapoo and I've got an alarm set to ensure it doesn't get stuck to the a**e of the pan ;D
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Would the grow more work on him do you think? ;D
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If not, it'll go on the plants in the garden ;-)
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Just told my OH,apparently (according to him) he doesn't need grow more ;D ;D ;D men !!!
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The back door key was missing last night.
Turns out I’d thrown it in the bin 😳
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The back door key was missing last night.
Turns out I’d thrown it in the bin 😳
Luckily you realised before you emptied the bin! :o
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Emz, do me a favour?
Do you mind checking your bin for the full tube of tomato puree that has completely disappeared from last night?!
Thanks! ;D
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Emz, do me a favour?
Do you mind checking your bin for the full tube of tomato puree that has completely disappeared from last night?!
Thanks! ;D
;D
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Found it.... In the coffee cupboard. Of course..... :o :o ;D
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Just this morning...putting out the hose from inside the garage to the sprinkler to water the front lawn (it's been very hot this week), on my way back into the garage to turn the water on, I forgot about the hose on the floor and I tripped on it and tried soooo hard not to fall but couldn't stop myself from going down. I must have looked like something from a slap stick comedy lol. Just a skinned knee and some pride lol.
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Just this morning...putting out the hose from inside the garage to the sprinkler to water the front lawn (it's been very hot this week), on my way back into the garage to turn the water on, I forgot about the hose on the floor and I tripped on it and tried soooo hard not to fall but couldn't stop myself from going down. I must have looked like something from a slap stick comedy lol. Just a skinned knee and some pride lol.
Aw, I hope your knee doesnt bruise.
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Found it.... In the coffee cupboard. Of course..... :o :o ;D
At least you didn’t put it in your coffee ;D
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Luckily you realised before you emptied the bin! :o
Makes me wonder what else I’ve thrown out 🤔
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I accidently left my hand cream on the bed last night. When I woke up this morning, I found cream all over the sheet and duvet. It was a new bottle too. :-X
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Were you slathering in the night ?
C.C. - how are the bruised knees? Easy to forget ......... yesterday I thought our hose was gently aerating the pond however: somehow it turned itself around >:( - but missed me ;D
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Were you slathering in the night ?
C.C. - how are the bruised knees? Easy to forget ......... yesterday I thought our hose was gently aerating the pond however: somehow it turned itself around >:( - but missed me ;D
No but I am so forgetful. I have just changed all the bedding. ;D
Your episode with the hose sounds like a 60's comedy. ;D
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Yep. I should have charged the wild birds for watching 'cos every1 else was at work :D
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Yep. I should have charged the wild birds for watching 'cos every1 else was at work :D
;D
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My name is Clovie.
And I do stupid things ;D ;D ;D ;D (Well, I do, now and again! ;D)
I feel I might belong here. Please welcome me into your group!! :D ;D :D ;D xx
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:lol: you're welcome, you'll fit right in :great:
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My name is Clovie.
And I do stupid things ;D ;D ;D ;D (Well, I do, now and again! ;D)
I feel I might belong here. Please welcome me into your group!! :D ;D :D ;D xx
Welcome Clovie. :)
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My head wouldn't wake up this morning :-\ ...... when I did surface it was 9.20 and I didn't know what day it is AND I had an appt at 10.00. No way, fortunately there was a gap at lunch time. Phew.
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My head wouldn't wake up this morning :-\ ...... when I did surface it was 9.20 and I didn't know what day it is AND I had an appt at 10.00. No way, fortunately there was a gap at lunch time. Phew.
I get confused about the days all the time. I am glad you were able to get another appointment. :)
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So am I. Sorted now.
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Does anyone pick up their phone to google something and once the phone is in their hand they forgot what they were going to google? I do this all the time. And sometimes forget something significant from earlier in the day, like what station I changed trains at? I hope this is just mental fatigue and nothing more..
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Does anyone pick up their phone to google something and once the phone is in their hand they forgot what they were going to google? I do this all the time. And sometimes forget something significant from earlier in the day, like what station I changed trains at? I hope this is just mental fatigue and nothing more..
Yes! My memory is appalling. I keep meaning to google something then go to google it only to have totally forgotten what I was meant to be googling.
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Or switch on the 📺 with their mobile phone. Apparently that won't work :-\ :D
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Or switch on the 📺 with their mobile phone. Apparently that won't work :-\ :D
;D I was listening to an audiobook on my phone and tried to adjust the volume using my laptop! ???
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May I giggle :lol:
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May I giggle :lol:
Of course!🤣
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:great:
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I once tried to make a phone call with my calculator.
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I was in a hurry once and on a period I put a pad on upside down, wondered why I was so sore like something sticking to me, have never forgotten the nightmare!!
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I was in a hurry once and on a period I put a pad on upside down, wondered why I was so sore like something sticking to me, have never forgotten the nightmare!!
Brilliant! :rofl:
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Ayesha!
I assume I am not the only one clenching my lady bits in sympathetic horror!
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When I'm on my iPad,my OH will maybe say.....here take a look at this and he hands me the laptop and I try to start scrolling with my finger on the screen 🙄😂
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I was in a hurry once and on a period I put a pad on upside down, wondered why I was so sore like something sticking to me, have never forgotten the nightmare!!
😱 Poor you!
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I once tried to make a phone call with my calculator.
;D
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;D
When I'm on my iPad,my OH will maybe say.....here take a look at this and he hands me the laptop and I try to start scrolling with my finger on the screen 🙄😂
That sounds like a comedy double act! ;D
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He's forever saying "stupid woman" in a loving way you understand ;D
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I was in a hurry once and on a period I put a pad on upside down, wondered why I was so sore like something sticking to me, have never forgotten the nightmare!!
Fantastic! I don't know how women get waxed, it must be excruciating!
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OOOHHHHH Ayesha: reminds me of 'Kotex' which always stuck :o :-X.
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I did something else stupid but can't remember what it might have been ;D
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I was hanging my washing out today and I literally dropped a peg about 10 times, not the same one, but I was getting worried about my lack of spacial awareness. Dropping things seems to be a pmt thing for me.
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I often drop pegs and can be heard 'get a grip Girl, get a grip!' ::)
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Ah! One morning this week I was supposed to be at a professional appt. by 10.00, however I didn't wake until 9.20. :o :o :-\ Then I couldn't read the time on the calendar so rang up: fortunately they fitted me in at lunch time!
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I keep putting things in the wrong places, milk in the dog food cupboard, daughter's knickers in the fridge instead of washing machine. With the knickers I blame her for not picking them up from her bedroom floor herself, but the kids were most disgusted 🤣
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I keep putting things in the wrong places, milk in the dog food cupboard, daughter's knickers in the fridge instead of washing machine. With the knickers I blame her for not picking them up from her bedroom floor herself, but the kids were most disgusted 🤣
;D That is a great way of teaching your daughter to pick them up herself! ;D
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I keep putting things in the wrong places, milk in the dog food cupboard, daughter's knickers in the fridge instead of washing machine. With the knickers I blame her for not picking them up from her bedroom floor herself, but the kids were most disgusted 🤣
;D That is a great way of teaching your daughter to pick them up herself! ;D
They ended up next to the yoghurt, which only the kids eat. I was mortified 🤣.
Good thing is both son and daughter growing up very educated about menopause!
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I keep putting things in the wrong places, milk in the dog food cupboard, daughter's knickers in the fridge instead of washing machine. With the knickers I blame her for not picking them up from her bedroom floor herself, but the kids were most disgusted 🤣
;D That is a great way of teaching your daughter to pick them up herself! ;D
They ended up next to the yoghurt, which only the kids eat. I was mortified 🤣.
Good thing is both son and daughter growing up very educated about menopause!
;D
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My stupid thing today was agreeing with the lovely lady at the petrol station who commented how cheerful I was....
Pms this week has made me a mad, ultra sensitive moody cow. She must have caught me in a rare moment of normalacy...that didnt last long😂
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MayB she was trying to cheer U up ;-).
Eat girl, eat!
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I think in retrospect she may have been talking to someone behind me!!! I would eat but am PMS fat feeling 😠 two chocolate rice cakes are as much as I dare. Will feel better tomorrow no doubt. Effing hormones🙄
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:lol:
eating every 3 hours helps PMS ........ chocolate rice cakes is a start ;-)
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I think in retrospect she may have been talking to someone behind me!!! I would eat but am PMS fat feeling 😠 two chocolate rice cakes are as much as I dare. Will feel better tomorrow no doubt. Effing hormones🙄
Won't all the pms fat feeling to when the bleed comes though? I second chocolate and extra rice cakes!
My bleed came today and for dinner I've had pasta with chilli, garlic and olive oil, homemade garlic bread, a large oreo chocolate bar, and now the kids are in bed I'm pondering ice cream 🙈
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Go for it. Eat whilst you can. The body will adjust. I've had a chocolate MAGNAM on a stick.
The PMS feelings went the moment the bleeding began, typical PMS.
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Mine should fade, am on mirena so no actual bleed. But the pms is so much better now I have upped the patch to 125. sometimes I think we forget what normal cycles are\were like before peri hell kicked in. I need to remember to accept pms, as it it so much more preferable to how I was even a couple of months ago.
Husband forgot himself.today and said he found an old photo of me and I was ' half the size '.... Bless him he really is so good and complimentary, especially as I am shedding a few pounds... It's just. That comment. This week. Sulked for a few hours. But he just picked the wrong day! Normally I would just tell him to F off ( it's the way we are together, no harm, just banter) but grrr, PMS. 🙀
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Mine should fade, am on mirena so no actual bleed. But the pms is so much better now I have upped the patch to 125. sometimes I think we forget what normal cycles are\were like before peri hell kicked in. I need to remember to accept pms, as it it so much more preferable to how I was even a couple of months ago.
Husband forgot himself.today and said he found an old photo of me and I was ' half the size '.... Bless him he really is so good and complimentary, especially as I am shedding a few pounds... It's just. That comment. This week. Sulked for a few hours. But he just picked the wrong day! Normally I would just tell him to F off ( it's the way we are together, no harm, just banter) but grrr, PMS. 🙀
Oh dear, naughty hubby 🙈
Pms sucks, my grumpiness stops with the bleed but my lower back and tum really aches. Painkillers for me today.
Do you get the physical discomfort as well as the mental / emotional stuff with the mirena?
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Mostly emotional, mood swings, teary, extra sensitive. I used to get bad cramps, but this has ceased, now, Physically I just do get slightly sore boobs, have had this cyclical all my hormonal life, take high strength vegan evening primrose oil capsules, but honestly the pms is so much better, just hoping it lasts!
At least with the mirena I no longer have periods, a massive thing for me. So yay,a positive thing to celebrate today! 😁
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Mostly emotional, mood swings, teary, extra sensitive. I used to get bad cramps, but this has ceased, now, Physically I just do get slightly sore boobs, have had this cyclical all my hormonal life, take high strength vegan evening primrose oil capsules, but honestly the pms is so much better, just hoping it lasts!
At least with the mirena I no longer have periods, a massive thing for me. So yay,a positive thing to celebrate today! 😁
And if you don't get the pain either, that's good too. Where do you get the evening primrose from? And did it take a long time to make a difference? I've heard they are meant to help with sore breasts as part of pms too.
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Whoops! Did DH realise ? :D
I grow evening primrose plants.
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Penguin I get the eve primrose from Boots, vegan ones, high strength. They seem to take a few weeks to make a difference but I am hoping they may help joint pain too. Used to have them many many years ago on prescriotion! Until apparently those in the profession said there was no evidence they worked... My g.p at the time said many of her female patients took them and she encouraged their use.
Beautiful garden plants too. Liked by our pretty moths!
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Penguin I get the eve primrose from Boots, vegan ones, high strength. They seem to take a few weeks to make a difference but I am hoping they may help joint pain too. Used to have them many many years ago on prescriotion! Until apparently those in the profession said there was no evidence they worked... My g.p at the time said many of her female patients took them and she encouraged their use.
Beautiful garden plants too. Liked by our pretty moths!
Thank you Sarah, I am going to get some today. The pms has been really bad this morning and I'm still in pain on day 2, so worth a try!
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I bought some new solar fairy lights for my pretty shed.
Left the charger in full Sun for a week. Turned them on yesterday afternoon. for a happy display. Nothing! Not little twinkling. Stomped off in dismay.
Then last night as I drew the curtains I saw a pretty glow from my shed. Because Sarah, they are Solar lights. They only come on in the dark!! Idiot.🙄🙄🙄
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1 of my solar lights is grumpy if I move it >:( ........... it sulks!
Nothing stupid thus far ...... give me time ;D
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I bought some new solar fairy lights for my pretty shed.
Left the charger in full Sun for a week. Turned them on yesterday afternoon. for a happy display. Nothing! Not little twinkling. Stomped off in dismay.
Then last night as I drew the curtains I saw a pretty glow from my shed. Because Sarah, they are Solar lights. They only come on in the dark!! Idiot.🙄🙄🙄
That is something I would do! ;D
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;D ;D
Sarah,you are NOT alone
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I bought some new solar fairy lights for my pretty shed.
Left the charger in full Sun for a week. Turned them on yesterday afternoon. for a happy display. Nothing! Not little twinkling. Stomped off in dismay.
Then last night as I drew the curtains I saw a pretty glow from my shed. Because Sarah, they are Solar lights. They only come on in the dark!! Idiot.🙄🙄🙄
Hahaha I wouldn't have known that either 🤣
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Ladies thank you as ever for your kind sympathy.
Am just grateful I didn't take it back to the shop to complain. ;)
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Imagine if you had stomped into the shop with your “faulty” lights, Sarah! I’d love to see that :rofl:
Well, I repeatedly tried to pay for our Costa coffees today (contactless) with my driving licence ;D
In my defence, my debit card is a similar colour 😳. My hubby smugly pointed out my mistake - my perfect “never makes a mistake” hubby :o
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Imagine if you had stomped into the shop with your “faulty” lights, Sarah! I’d love to see that :rofl:
Well, I repeatedly tried to pay for our Costa coffees today (contactless) with my driving licence ;D
In my defence, my debit card is a similar colour 😳. My hubby smugly pointed out my mistake - my perfect “never makes a mistake” hubby :o
;D I remember years ago handing in my library card to a cashier instead of my debit card. ;D
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No as bad as me. I once tried to take out library books using my ' mirena coil notification card' !!
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Oh you win with that one Sarah ;D🥇....
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No as bad as me. I once tried to take out library books using my ' mirena coil notification card' !!
😱 You do indeed win that one! ;D
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Thank you she says. The hormonal crown goes to me today ;D
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Having been born and bred in Scotland, I made a bit of a faux pas when I moved to England and did a Tesco shop, I do the self serve and had to weigh some potatoes on the scale,well,you know how you have to type in some letters for the screen to find the item? Well, I was putting in a "T" eventually asked for help and the lady said......it's P for potatoes,not T for tatties ;D
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Having been born and bred in Scotland, I made a bit of a faux pas when I moved to England and did a Tesco shop, I do the self serve and had to weigh some potatoes on the scale,well,you know how you have to type in some letters for the screen to find the item? Well, I was putting in a "T" eventually asked for help and the lady said......it's P for potatoes,not T for tatties ;D
Aw, that is cute. :)
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Having been born and bred in Scotland, I made a bit of a faux pas when I moved to England and did a Tesco shop, I do the self serve and had to weigh some potatoes on the scale,well,you know how you have to type in some letters for the screen to find the item? Well, I was putting in a "T" eventually asked for help and the lady said......it's P for potatoes,not T for tatties ;D
;D ;D. I could see me doing that too, Jaypo..
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:rofl:
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Having been born and bred in Scotland, I made a bit of a faux pas when I moved to England and did a Tesco shop, I do the self serve and had to weigh some potatoes on the scale,well,you know how you have to type in some letters for the screen to find the item? Well, I was putting in a "T" eventually asked for help and the lady said......it's P for potatoes,not T for tatties ;D
Lol that really tickled me, I wonder of you'd do an N for neeps too? 🤣
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:lol:
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Having been born and bred in Scotland, I made a bit of a faux pas when I moved to England and did a Tesco shop, I do the self serve and had to weigh some potatoes on the scale,well,you know how you have to type in some letters for the screen to find the item? Well, I was putting in a "T" eventually asked for help and the lady said......it's P for potatoes,not T for tatties ;D
Oh nooooooo,now you've put that in my head ;D
Lol that really tickled me, I wonder of you'd do an N for neeps too? 🤣
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I've been lucky this morning :-\. A new puppy in our estate came for a cuddle so I put my reading glasses on the back of the car on the drive, tucked into the back windscreen wiper. We travelled 20 miles, in heavy drizzle, to find them still there when we parked up :o :o. because I had 4gotten completely! Fortunately .........
Beat that if you can ! ;D
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I've been lucky this morning :-\. A new puppy in our estate came for a cuddle so I put my reading glasses on the back of the car on the drive, tucked into the back windscreen wiper. We travelled 20 miles, in heavy drizzle, to find them still there when we parked up :o :o. because I had 4gotten completely! Fortunately .........
Beat that if you can ! ;D
Oh my gosh! ;D At least you got to have puppy cuddles.😍
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Yep. And have the glasses as a bonus :D
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Yeah yeah so pleased about your glasses...
Now tell us more about the puppy! ;D
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:lol: :scottie:
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toast - after all these years wouldn't U think that I could make breakfast toast ;D
It wasn't until I'd taken the bread from under the grill and turned it to put on butter ........... ::) one side was lovely ;D
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I had a senior moment earlier >:( in a store trying to read instructions on a large box, couldn't find my readers. Until I got back into the car, they were in my hand :bang: :bang: :bang:
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;D
My readers always mysteriously appear on the top of my head CLKD (after frantically turning my handbag upside down, saying......."I know I put my specs in!") ;D
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You two need one of those cord things you hang the glasses around your neck on 🤣
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:rofl:
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Confession - I have a gold coloured chain - any1 ideas where it might be :-\ :D
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Probably around your neck clkd ;D
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well it won't be down my bra ;D
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Well I've managed to lose my dogs towels,took them a walk today,came home,went to the "doggy cupboard " and they're not there,HOW can you lose two towels? One is a big bath towel as well,I've looked everywhere,probably in the back of the fridge ;D
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I misread and thought you said you lost your dogs!!! Slightly less concerned about towels 🤣🤣🤣
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Well I've managed to lose my dogs towels,took them a walk today,came home,went to the "doggy cupboard " and they're not there,HOW can you lose two towels? One is a big bath towel as well,I've looked everywhere,probably in the back of the fridge ;D
Oh dear Jaypo. I would check with Mr Jaypo. I reckon he’s just wrapped himself up in said doggy towel after taking a shower :rofl:
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All in the laundry following your cruise ..........
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Nope and nope, mean how can you lose towels?? It's doing my head in now
Although songbird,OH DID look a bit more hairy than usual after his shower this morning ;D ;D
Penguin,how dare you not be concerned for my towels!! ;D
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Towels = airing cupboard :-\ ???
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Ewww not dog towels in airing cupboard
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Jaypo I prefer dogs to most people 🤣
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Naturally I assume all of us are an exception Penguin?! ;D
Some days I even prefer spiders to most people,and I am terrified of them.....
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People or spiders sarah....or both ;D
Nope clkd,I've looked literally everywhere in the house,now,if I go to OHs garage and find them in there,keep an eye out for the news.......
"Crazed Scottish woman,tries to strangle husband with dogs bath towel" ;D
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Scanning the News carefully ......... :lol:
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Naturally I assume all of us are an exception Penguin?! ;D
Some days I even prefer spiders to most people,and I am terrified of them.....
Oh but of course Sarah, especially as you are all online and I can dip in and out! It's people in real life I have a problem with 🤣
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Yep, people can be too complicated ;D where as dogs and cats .......... ;)
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I've always preferred animals over humans,they let you down too often :-\
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I agree Jaypo. I've never been without a dog and I've no intention of that changing. They give unconditional love, always give you a warm welcome home, love a nice tummy scratch and enjoy some tasty food - hold on, the tummy scratch and food lover bit is also Mr Songbird 😂
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:lol: he probably knows his place in the queue though ?
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He certainly does, CLKD ;)
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Me too,ALWAYS had dogs,my entire life,all shapes and sizes,used to show a Hungarian vizsla back in the day,she was top gundog in Scotland 😃
Ok has anyone found me towels??? ;D
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Seriously you've still not found them, that'd drive me nuts too 🙈🤣
In the car?
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We even looked in the car penguin 😂🤣 I'm getting angry now lol
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Where did your dogs go when you were away ? did you pack for them towels etc ?
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Geez, I cannot belieeeevvve it!
"Dog towel thief on the loose in Scotland. Do not approach"
🤭
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I suspect that they are inside the washing machine after dogs have been on long walks ;-). Surely by now ........ :-\
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I know where they are..... tumble dryer!!!! Or blown off the washing line!!!!!
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Ask the person who was feeding them whilst you were away :poke2:
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Haha my daughter stays with us ,so she was looking after them and she didn't use their towels.
Awwwgeeze songbird,have I seen the last of them??
Nope to washing machine,tumble drier,or washing line,oh I don't know,I've no doubt done something absolutely ridiculous with them,think I need a vino ;D
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Is your daughter short of towels? Perhaps they've gone walkies home with her 🤣
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This is better than the detective tv show we are bingeing on.... Case of the Missing Towels.
Did you dry the dogs off outside? Are they by obvious place of the door? Or dogs baskets to soak up any excess wet?
Are any of us actually going to get any sleep tonight with the towel fretting??? You just know that they will be doing that ' hidden in plain sight thing '
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A case for Dr Watson I presume?
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Has your daughter had a party while you were away and the towels have been put in the bin after some mopping up ? (sorry loosley based on my past experiences with my daughter ;D)
All reminds me of the towel sketch in League of Gentlemen. The Denton House rules for towels when they have someone staying
"White for hands, Brown for feet, Green for torso, thighs and seat and in the cupboard beneath the stair you'll find the Red for pubic hair."
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Oh brilliant 🤣🤣🤣
Our dog ones go in cupboard under the stairs
Jaypo have you interrogated your daughter yet? Tell her we're all onto her...
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I think I'm just going to have to give up on this one,although it will haunt me for the rest of my days.
I have quizzed my daughter but she's pretty honest,she told me she'd broken a cheese slicer a glass and a hot water bottle ;D So I think she'd own up to a towel, I do wonder if they've been used to mop up and binned though,it's the only explanation 🤷♀️ and for some reason she's not telling me 🤨
My brain hurts now,have any of you,in your head,gone over and over your actions?
Heyho,I'll phone the towel police later
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Yep. My brain simply won't stop 'searching'. Yesterday it was a top that I was given for my birthday [remember that ;-) ?] - it turned out that I was wearing it :o. That was after I had turned out the wardrobe and my drawers .........
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Yes I regularly get looping thoughts. OCD related but sometimes just about normal things like where have I put my towels 🙈🤣
Oh actually no better example is whem I go over amd over something to the point that I can't remember whether I've actually done it or have just imagined I have, if that makes sense?????
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Penguin,I have a feeling you are trivialising my towel dilemma ;D ;D
Yep,it DOES make sense,completely,glad I'm not alone 🙄
Clkd that's even worse than me ;D
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Ohhhh I missed that CLKD, what are you like 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
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If this Forum is anything to go by, pretty normal from where I'm sitting :lol:
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Looking for my reading glasses earlier today, no one in the house/garden noted that they were on my nose >:( ::)
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Went to put a dirty cup in the cupboard NEXT to dishwasher :o
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:D. ........ I put laundry into the dishwasher last week ::)
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All sounds normal to me clkd ;D
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Probably :lol:
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Last night the weather closed in causing rain to chuck against our windows, trying to get in :o. This morning I went out to discover that I had left the lids off the bin in which I store peanuts for the birds >:(
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Nothing worse than soggy nuts clkd ;D
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I reckon a soggy gusset might be worse than soggy nuts, Jaypo 🤔
Songbird's out of control :rofl:
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:lol:
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Songbird!!!! Leave the forum immediately and go sit on the naughty step ;D
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I should have been a stand up comic, me ;D ;D
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Threw the tub of double cream away after just 1 day.
Thought It had been open for days, but nope, OH said he'd only opened it last night!
Duuhhhhhhhhhh! :stupid:
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Double cream keeps for months in the fridge once opened. I had 1 for 2/5 months B4 it began to go green round the rim of the pot ;-)
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Whoops. Almost ;D - dishwasher capsule into the washing machine ::)
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My washing machine is in a different room from the dishwasher.......it's the only way clkd,it's the only way ;D
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In Paris with my 9 year old daughter. Decided to get funicular up to Sacre Couer. Followed Google maps, walked for ages (in the rain!), lots and lots of steps. Finally realised we were at the top of the funicular and had walked all the way up! At no point on the way up did this possibility enter my head ;D
This was yesterday, today my feets, legs and gluten are killing me. Does this count as a stupid thing???
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Definitely x 2 ;D. What was the view like even in the rain?
All our white goods R in the utility room .......... dishwasher, laundry machine side-by-side opposite the chest freezer which is beside the larder fridge and fridge/freezer. 4 two of us ;D. On and the boiler for airing the laundry.
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The view was pretty good although a little misty! It had cleared up by evening when we went to Trocadero to see Eiffel Tower at night now that spectacular!
I am scared with white goods, one day I'll put my phone in there with the laundry for sure!
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That won't happen here today, can't remember where my mobile. might be!
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Penguin,there's a lift in the Eiffel Tower........just sayin ;D ;D
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The view was pretty good although a little misty! It had cleared up by evening when we went to Trocadero to see Eiffel Tower at night now that spectacular!
I am scared with white goods, one day I'll put my phone in there with the laundry for sure!
Been there, done that........ :-[
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Penguin,there's a lift in the Eiffel Tower........just sayin ;D ;D
We didn't go up it this time, she just wanted to see it lit up, bit I did remember the lift last year when we went ;D
Didn't stop me booking Musee D'Orsay tickets for the wrong month last year though, hence why we went back there this time!!
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My hubby and I did a moonlit cruise down the Seine,was absolutely fantastic,saw The Nortedame all lit up,it was stunning
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My hubby and I did a moonlit cruise down the Seine,was absolutely fantastic,saw The Nortedame all lit up,it was stunning
Oh I'm really looking going back to Notre Dame when it reopens. Cruise on the Seine sounds lovely, we did one when we had visitors over, with lunch I think but it was daylight so not as atmospheric.
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I forget words often, forget the names of articles or plants :'(. Miss words out and expect DH to fill in the gaps. In the early hours I was cold so tried to switch on my electric blanket, so deeply asleep that the alarm clock didn't work :-\. I couldn't find the blanket thingy ........
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;D
I remember telling hubby that I took mum a drive in the countryside, passing by a large field with lots of "what do you call them?!", I said......"big roly things". He looked bemused, I was peed off because I could not get the word!
"What? he said, cows?!"
"No", said I "they're creamy coloured"
"Sheep?" He offered up. "No" said I.
By now I was panicking. Then, like a lightbulb going on, it came to me..
Hay Bales!!
Oh for God's sake, what a palaver ;D
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:lol: I don't think that I could even drawer what I'm thinking of :-\.
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Brilliant songbird,big roly things .......cows? 🤣😂🤣
What was the blanket thingy clkd? Thermostat??
Blimey,life is an actual game these days ;D
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That's it jaypo. With support like this I will survive ;D.
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;D
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No one noticed my typo though ;D
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I did, just thought you were stupid though ;D ;D
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That's a given ;D
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This isn't so much as DOING stupid things,more of READING stupid things but it did give me a giggle this morning,see if you can spot the mistake one of the main newspapers made today
As well as being uncomfortable, bloated and in pain, holding your urine can cause a whole host of health issues such as infections, incompetence and in worst cases, a burst bladder
;D
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Ooh, I don't fancy an incompetent bladder. I've got enough problems :rofl:
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;D Don't they read the article before they put it out? ;D
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infections, incompetence and in worst cases, a burst bladder
:rofl: Freudian slip? Where's the Editor in all this ;D
Also this thread : sometimes it tells me that my 'last posting was 5 seconds ago' when I've been in bed all night