Is it me, or is the "new posts" button broken?

[Icemaiden]

I log in, click on "new posts" and am told that there aren't any ?. I know that BYM's away, but where has everyone else gone? It's lonely here all on my own...

I've resorted to reading a fountain pen forum, but there's nothing remotely cute about fountain pens & they'd make a dreadful omelette...

Where are all of my poultry forum friends??? Is it something I said???

 

[Margaid]

I log in, click on "new posts" and am told that there aren't any ?. I know that BYM's away, but where has everyone else gone? It's lonely here all on my own...

I've resorted to reading a fountain pen forum, but there's nothing remotely cute about fountain pens & they'd make a dreadful omelette...

Where are all of my poultry forum friends??? Is it something I said???

I was wondering the same thing, the same messages have been there for several days. I haven't posted because I fell off my stairs and made a total mess of my humerus which meant I have to have a shoulder replacement. But me being me, it's a "reverse polarity" i.e the ball is fixed on a peg into the socket in my shoulder and the socket is on a long spike which is cemented into the humerus. Fortunately I'm quite good with my left hand as my right arm was almost useless for three or four weeks. I can now hold a biscuit in my right hand and get it up to my mouth. YAY!!!!! It's tiny improvements like that which are keeping me positive as prognosis is 6-9 months to regain reasonable mobility. Can't drive becasue I'm still drugged up to the eyeballs.

I've been reduced to watching the Hoof GP on Facebook ...

 

[Margaid]

Oo-er! I just went to see if there was any reply to my post and it didn't show under "New posts", neither did Icemaiden's post. When I clicked on "What's New" there they were, plus a few comments I'd missed.

 

[Icemaiden]

So sorry to hear about your fall off the stairs, Margaid. I hope you weren't lying there for days until the postman found you? ?
Congratulations on your biscuit success. Long spaghetti next? Perhaps not...

I'll have to look for "what's new". I'm not sure if I've found that...

I'm sporting a tasteful plastic eye patch at the moment, after having a pesky cataract removed last Sunday. No bending down for 2 weeks, so the girls are having fun with my husband who's on feeding & poo picking duty. Oh, and he's missing the dishwasher fairy, the laundry fairy & the bin emptying fairy too. They've all abandoned him for a fortnight on doctor's orders!

Hope you make good progress. If the painkillers bung you up & you get bored of prunes, try tinned or dried apricots. They work too!

I'm resisting puns about funny bones. It doesn't sound like any fun at all ?.

Take care,
Icemaiden

 

[Margaid]

"What's New" is on the banner at the top of the page.

You're right, it wasn't a lot of fun but slowly getting better. I had fantastic service from the NHS; I'm 45 minutes from the hospital but an empty ambulance en route from Telford to Shrewsbury was diverted to me - 30 minutes after I phoned; was outside the hospital an hour later and INSIDE the hospital within 15 minutes. Was x-rayed, CT scanned, seen by three different doctors and an appointment made to see the shoulder specialist on Monday afternoon and free to go home nine hours after I fell at 2 am on Friday morning. Operation to replace the shoulder joint and deal with the fracture the following Friday at the best orthopaedic hospital.

Fortunately I was able to roll over on to my back and then my left side which brought me nearer the foot of the stairs and the newel post so I could get on to my knees and then access the 'phone. Running on adrenaline at that pint I managed to stand up and unlock the front door, although I do have a keysafe at the back of the house.

Weird thing is I can't get a fork or spoon to my mouth with my right hand but I'm VERY good with my left. Must be something to do with having to move the arm out sideways to do that. I'm even managing to cook simple things so lots of fruit and veg and the prescribed laxative, plus walking half a mile to the local shops which keeps things moving!

I've now had lens implants in both eyes, both trouble free although I needed the follow up laser treatment on one. So be good and do what your doctor tells you.

 

[bigyetiman]

Good heavens Margaid, you have been in the wars, I am glad you got treated promptly and the wait for an ambulance wasn't too long.

good that you are getting out and about and coping with food.

Only 20 days until the first Ospreys arrive, based on last years arrival which was Loch of the Lowes, followed by Rutland, so you will have plenty of webcams to look at to keep you entertained

You with your eye patch Icemaiden, I never realised housework fairies went on strike, worrying for us menfolk

 

[Icemaiden]

Good heavens Margaid, you have been in the wars, I am glad you got treated promptly and the wait for an ambulance wasn't too long.

good that you are getting out and about and coping with food.

Only 20 days until the first Ospreys arrive, based on last years arrival which was Loch of the Lowes, followed by Rutland, so you will have plenty of webcams to look at to keep you entertained

You with your eye patch Icemaiden, I never realised housework fairies went on strike, worrying for us menfolk

The housework fairies have been instructed by the surgeon not to bend over or to lift anything & to take it easy for 2 weeks. Taking one dinner plate out of the dishwasher gave the dishwasher fairy a pain in her eye :-( so it's not worth the risk...

 

[Icemaiden]

How was your holiday? How are the neighbour's animals?

 

[bigyetiman]

Holiday was lovely thankyou, lots of good walks and good birds, off for a spot of birdwatching in Cornwall next week.

the neighbour's animals survived thanks to a nearby farmer helping out. OH has christened him Sir Galahad, if she has a problem she rings Stewart and he appears. There has been an outbreak of squirrels there, they are roaming around in packs of 5+, so cage traps have been employed and they have trapped and shot 30 so far, plus 5 rats. There must be more Squirrels in the wood at the back than trees.

The resident Barn Owls are doing a good job with the smaller rats, so are the Tawny's probably but they don't sit on the hay bales by the owl boxes just watching.

She did have to extricate the neighbour's elderly Labrador yesterday who somehow got itself wedged into her walking frame and was walking around with it, never a dull moment. Trying to get neighbour to realise she can't expect people to run her farm for free is the tricky bit.

 

[Icemaiden]

It sounds as though the labrador needed a walking frame ?. That's one sensible dog!

Which were your best birding successes?

 

[bigyetiman]

Some of the things that happen up there could be submitted to All Creatures Great & Small for plotlines.

Many highlights from our Norfolk trip, the best being a life tick in the form of a Black Scoter at Holkham OH's 456th UK bird. it's an American duck. Hen Harriers, Pallid Harrier, 2 Sea Eagles, nice flock of Cranes as well. All the geese are always good to watch, as they fly out in the mornings and return as are the swans. Not to mention the lovely coast line and meeting up with friends

 

[Icemaiden]

Here's a question for you, BYM, or for any other lurking birders on the forum... I've just seen a weird male pheasant on the front lawn. Normal size & shape, typical red face, but the back was the colour of a collared dove's with no barring or pattern, & its legs & feet were red (but it's definitely pheasant size not a partridge). I'll try to upload a photo later, though I struggle to resize photos taken on my phone...

 

[Hen-Gen]

Sorry to be tedious but my health is fine apart from the normal minor problems of old age. Epilepsy controlled by drugs so alls dandy. Great skua population crashed by 90% as a result of bird flu and being top predator all else has bred very well. Of course the RSPB won’t have it that theres any connection between these two events. Crofters report a huge reduction in lambs with their eyes pecked out but I expect they’re wrong as well. Chickens all fine as we approach the hatching season. Used a foreign ram last autumn so keen to see what lambs he throws in April. Husband fine too.

 

[Icemaiden]

Hi Hen-Gen.
It's great to hear a flurry of good news ?.

Some good has come from the bird flu epidemic then... Why a great skua would choose to eat lambs' eyes, heaven only knows, but then some humans eat frogs' legs & waste the rest, and we're supposedly civilised...

Have you been married long, or is that a new development? If so, congratulations!

 

[Icemaiden]

Here's a question for you, BYM, or for any other lurking birders on the forum... I've just seen a weird male pheasant on the front lawn. Normal size & shape, typical red face, but the back was the colour of a collared dove's with no barring or pattern, & its legs & feet were red (but it's definitely pheasant size not a partridge). I'll try to upload a photo later, though I struggle to resize photos taken on my phone...

I've uploaded photos (of a sort...) to the "other poultry" board, as it's "for discussion of other kinds if poultry including pheasants ". It's the first message on that board in a while...