Month: March 2018

Honestly, if it’s not one thing it’s another!.

Something my mother was fond of saying.

I thought, well that was the last thing I should have done, for two days now I’ve been thinking I’d sit down and have a chat but between our ISP and WordPress that’s as far as it got.  Fingers crossed this time 😊

‘When I was growing up in England there was a little game we girls (never the boys lol) would play in the playground as we sang a song about going in and out the windows.  A group of us would stand in a circle holding and then raising the hand of the person next to you so they looked like arches, then another girl would make her way around the cirle going under/in and out of the ‘windows’ as we sang along.  There were other actions but I’m a little hazy where they’re concerned.

This little tune and the tag line …..as we have done before …………was running through my mind at certain times over the weekend- but I have to go back to February first before I tell you why.

Taking a lead from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, as far as I was concerned my description of this past summer was an ‘aestas horribilis’ – a horrible summer! Extremely hot and humid – uncomfortable – my asthma played up, I couldn’t settle, then to top it off I developed a UTI.

If you’ve ever had one you’ll know that feeling of constantly ‘wanting to go ‘ and then the other feeling that comes along with it ‘lpeeing broken glass’  tiring and painful.   We have a wonderful product here called Ural – little sachets of fizzy powder that are a mix of bicarb soda, citric acid, tartaric acid (as well as a few other bits and pieces) which help enormously by neutralising the acidic urine so relieving the symptoms before an antibiotic kicks.

Going back for a check visit after finishing the wizbang antibiotics recommended for bladder infections I mentioned how tired and weary I felt.  We talked about the heat, the UTI and coping with mature age asthma all of which could have made me feel that way, blood tests were arranged but everything turned out normal.  And the tiredness disappeared- but then so had the heat lol

Fast forward to Monday evening and those ‘funny little feelings’ come back again –  yes a repeat performance.  I was in and out of the toilet as ‘I had done before’  Luckily I managed to get into a cancelled appt at the GPs Tuesday morning and began the same antibiotics that night.

Just out of curiosity I looked at Mr G***le and discovered one of the possible side effects could be ‘tiredness and fatigue’ …..it’s early days yet but I’m wondering……was the weariness I felt back in February the result of all those factors mentioned to the doctor OR a side effect of the antibiotic?

Here it is early evening on one of the days of the year which tend to make me pensive.  Thinking about the next few months and how I’m (unlike many other people) not fond of cool/cold weather.

The other day will be in early April when our clocks change and summer time will officially end.  I know that act doesn’t change the weather – it certainly doesn’t need a clock to tell it what to do – it’s the idea that summer has been and gone and another season has begun.

Today is or rather was the Autumn Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Not sure why but I’ve only just become aware there is an actual time of the day when the equinox actually happens.

So like most midnights on New Years Eve the equinox today slipped quietly past my house at 3.15 am this morning as I was slumbering away, snug as a bug in a rug, nice and warm under the extra blanket I needed because the overnight low was going to be 9c/48f.

So yes, the days will become shorter – well they don’t actually get shorter do they because there are still 24hrs – it’s the amount of daylight that becomes less 😎

I got into a real pickle years ago trying to explain all this to children each year and gave up just saying it’ll get dark earlier and that’s all there is to it.  Really patient mother wasn’t I lol

The website I took the screen shot from suggested sunset at 7.30pm tonight and here it is 8pm and its dark outside.  So to cheer me up I’m off to put on my PJs and make my Milo before I settle down for the evening.

Soon be time to hibernate I think 😊

Bye for now

Cathy

Like it or loathe it Reality TV shows are here to stay.  There’s a whole swag of them that appear in various forms each year…….Cooking – Home Renovating – Relationships…..I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about.

Even though I have other things I could be doing AND as much as I hate to admit it I often start to watch one and ‘get hooked’. Just one mind you!

This year it has been ‘Married at First Sight’ (MAFS) where experts pair couples of various ages together in an experiment involving a mock marriage followed by time together with the expectation that they could ‘bond’ and maybe decide to carry on the relationship after the show has finished.  Yes – a load of rubbish some say, yet it can be intriguing to see human nature play a part as the weeks go by.

You see how the needs and wants of these couples come into play, most of them are good talkers and can express their thoughts to the cameras (which follow them on this journey) there are good ‘guys’ wacky ones, quiet ones as well as emotional ones and there are also the ‘bad’ ones 😊

Very early this season much to the horror of the experts two of the ‘contestants’ were dissatisfied with their ‘other halves’ and seemed to take a fancy to each other.  In other words unbeknown to their partners they carried out a bit of romantic suggestive texting with each other and then had a little rendevous (all filmed of course) and then when the facts became public knowledge to the others the man sort of backtracked denying he had anything to do with it, he’d been pursued by the other woman, really liked his wife. Oh the excuses were flowing.

Several other things happened that he was involved in eg loud sexist ‘boy’s night’ talk where the beer is flowing freely (all filmed of course for the tv audience’s enjoyment) On screen his wife’ accepted protestations of things being misinterpreted, accepted the benefit of doubt, all his shortcomings as well as his declarations of ‘love’ …….even though a lot of the others (and people on social media) warned her off him.

Anyway last night, after a week away from each other in order to gather their thoughts together so they could make their final decision, they came together in the middle of a very desrted paddock for the last commitment ceremony – supposedly to declare their to each other and then state whether they……as the producers hope……would continue to see each other.

Dean was very wordy ….and persuasive …as he did just that.

Then Tracy said her piece telling him quietly and very politely it was not to be – he betrayed her several times and all this recent display of ‘love’ was too little too late and he didn’t deserve her.

She then exited stage right and he still displaying feelings of entitlement was walking round in circles crying like a baby.  Not happy at getting his just rewards!

Now no judging here but seeing and hearing that, viewers Australia wide clapped and cheered – myself included!

After that bit of ‘creative’ entertainment it’s now back to the sensible informative type – 7.30 report, Four Corners, Q&A as well as Insiders sounds good lol

Come on, now it’s your turn.  Tell me your secrets – what tv shows do you quietly admit to watching 😊

Last nights weather forecast

Pleasant days and cooler nights

Looks like Autumn has arrived 😎

(And here’s a little helping hand for those of you who still use farenheit)

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