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Marigold said:
Me too, I’ve been rather ill the past two weeks with a lung infection, not good for my COPD. Now on my second set of antibiotics (first lot didn’t touch it) plus steroids, plus a drug supposed to thin the mucus and help me to get rid of it. The good side of this drug are the side effects- they’re sort of happy pills - I might consider selling a few to local teenagers for party use. The downside is that they seem to work best at night, when I’m horizontal, so I settle down, start to cough, sit up, have coughing fit and deal with the products. Lie down again, —and repeat literally ALL last night, had no sleep AT ALL.
Then today there’s an article in the Guardian about how the brain washes away the harmful sediment and restores your software overnight if you sleep well, but esp. in older people who don’t sleep well the brain can’t cleanup the amyloid plaque, resulting in greater risk of dementia. Cheery stuff!

On the bright side, our new 14-week-old puppy, Pippin, is a delight, a real little sweetie, and very bright, he’s learned everything on the puppy class curriculum already, although the actual classes are so full of new stimulus and other pups that he can’t demonstrate his skills in the face if all the distractions, but that’s what we go for. The trainer is the same as we had for dear Poppy in 2014, absolutely brilliant lady, so all good. Here he is, helping with the washing, and totally clapped out after puppy class.
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Hope you'll soon be better Marigold. Thankfully, I'm almost over it - at least I hope so. My daughter got this dose, and in spite of how ill she's been the last couple of months, she got over it quickly. Eldest grandson also got over it quickly. Younger grandson however, didn't get over it so easily. He got a bad ear infection and needed antibiotics, and it took a few days to get his temperature stable. So I'm glad I seem to be recovering quickly.
 
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Marigold said:
Me too, I’ve been rather ill the past two weeks with a lung infection, not good for my COPD. Now on my second set of antibiotics (first lot didn’t touch it) plus steroids, plus a drug supposed to thin the mucus and help me to get rid of it. The good side of this drug are the side effects- they’re sort of happy pills - I might consider selling a few to local teenagers for party use. The downside is that they seem to work best at night, when I’m horizontal, so I settle down, start to cough, sit up, have coughing fit and deal with the products. Lie down again, —and repeat literally ALL last night, had no sleep AT ALL.
Then today there’s an article in the Guardian about how the brain washes away the harmful sediment and restores your software overnight if you sleep well, but esp. in older people who don’t sleep well the brain can’t cleanup the amyloid plaque, resulting in greater risk of dementia. Cheery stuff!

On the bright side, our new 14-week-old puppy, Pippin, is a delight, a real little sweetie, and very bright, he’s learned everything on the puppy class curriculum already, although the actual classes are so full of new stimulus and other pups that he can’t demonstrate his skills in the face if all the distractions, but that’s what we go for. The trainer is the same as we had for dear Poppy in 2014, absolutely brilliant lady, so all good. Here he is, helping with the washing, and totally clapped out after puppy class.
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Oh, he is so gorgeous, and I hope you feel better real soon
 
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Marigold said:
Me too, I’ve been rather ill the past two weeks with a lung infection, not good for my COPD. Now on my second set of antibiotics (first lot didn’t touch it) plus steroids, plus a drug supposed to thin the mucus and help me to get rid of it. The good side of this drug are the side effects- they’re sort of happy pills - I might consider selling a few to local teenagers for party use. The downside is that they seem to work best at night, when I’m horizontal, so I settle down, start to cough, sit up, have coughing fit and deal with the products. Lie down again, —and repeat literally ALL last night, had no sleep AT ALL.
Then today there’s an article in the Guardian about how the brain washes away the harmful sediment and restores your software overnight if you sleep well, but esp. in older people who don’t sleep well the brain can’t cleanup the amyloid plaque, resulting in greater risk of dementia. Cheery stuff!

On the bright side, our new 14-week-old puppy, Pippin, is a delight, a real little sweetie, and very bright, he’s learned everything on the puppy class curriculum already, although the actual classes are so full of new stimulus and other pups that he can’t demonstrate his skills in the face if all the distractions, but that’s what we go for. The trainer is the same as we had for dear Poppy in 2014, absolutely brilliant lady, so all good. Here he is, helping with the washing, and totally clapped out after puppy class.
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So sorry to hear that Marigold. Hope you're feeling better today. Disturbed nights are awful but mine is self-inflicted because it's my very elderly cat that wakes me three times a night! Pippin is lovely, I love it when they help with things.
 
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Thank you, everyone, for your kind messages. As Mrs Bennet remarks in Pride & Prejudice, ‘those who never complain are never pitied’ which obviously works, so in future I’ll bear that in mind.

This infection is rather wearing, loss of sleep, and a lot of energy going into simply breathing. I haven’t had one as bad as this for years. I shall get through it, but sadly I’ve realised I need to rehome my hens because of the allergic dust from Aubiose and feathers etc. Also, they are yet more animals to care for as well as the dog, and though I have a reliable teenager on tap when we go away, it may not be sustainable long term. However, my good friends Jim and Julia will welcome them with open wings, because they’re now down to a couple of oldies and, getting no eggs, were thinking of buying some new pullets. So mine will go to a super free range home for their natural life, (which, tbh, they might not have enjoyed once they stopped laying if they stayed with me!) And my friends will take the Green Frog coop for them - though being leghorn hybrids they’ve never used it except the nest boxes as they like to roost on a high perch under the run roof instead. So J.and J. will have to attend hen training classes, but I haven’t mentioned this yet,

As for Pippin - when Poppy died, we were both devastated. It’s a major bereavement when you lose a dog like her, one so much part of your life. She was so very special to both of us.
So it’ll be a long grieving process, but if course it raises the question of the wisdom of getting another dog when you’re 82 and going slowly up the stairs, and no longer climbing Glyder Fawr and up over the Castle of the Winds. A dog is for life, a 15year contract potentially. But to us, Poppy was an assistance dog - because of her needs and routines, and because of her sense of humour, and her intuitional response to how we were feeling, she made us get up, go for a walk in all weathers, come for cuddles, chase ducks off the pond, - so part of our despair was the thought that she was our last dog, as well as one of a long line of dogs. But our daughter Sara said ‘Don’t be silly, Mum, it’s essential for you to have a dog, and if in the future you can’t take care of him any longer, I will always give him a home with mine.”
Then we were faced with a long wait to find a Norfolk Terrier puppy, could have been months as they’re a fairly rare breed with small litters - but when I asked Poppy’s breeder, she said that, on the day Poppy died, the people who were booked to take the remaining pup from a litter of two had rung her and asked if she could keep him for another 5 weeks as it wasn't convenient to get him at nine weeks as planned. So she offered him to us instead. He’s related to Poppy - Poppy’s Mum was Pippin’s great grandmother - so it did all fall into place and we had him 10 days after Poppy passed away. We both keep calling him Poppy, somewhat similar name plus nine years of use but with practice it’s mutating to Poppin. The other problem is pronouns. Hard to use ‘he’ rather than ‘she’ - similar to the national cultural change from The Queen to The King, I suppose.
I’m still feeling pretty ill - but Tony is really stepping up and learning to cook, the girls have had a go at him about helping me and I’ve been worried about how he’d cope if I died first when he can’t even work the microwave. He is making good progress. Has learned how to do several dinners, using various functions of my combi oven, and edible results produced, - though having spent ages making a lovely smooth cheese sauce, better than mine would have been, when left to serve it up he poured it over the little cheese soufflés instead of the cauliflower it had actually been destined for. Nouvelle cuisine, and actually very nice. Today we aim to up our game and make a slow cooker full of savoury mince and veg for cottage pie, plus extra portions for the freezer. (However, as he’s gone to bed for a little nap atm, the mince might have to be tomorrow, so we may need to try AutoCook Program 24, Jacket Potatoes, instead.)
He’s not the only one snoozing!
 

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LadyA said:
Oh Marigold! Oh dear! That is funny - - it caught me off the hop, and my sudden laughter turned to a bad coughing fit!
My cold has cleared up completely, thankfully, but the dreadful cough lingers.

Hope you'll soon be well again.
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Hi LadyA, I’m very glad you’re getting better. Yes the cough dies hang about like the last guest at the party when the hosts just want to go to bed, doesn’t it? I’m sure my cough will turn out to be a relative of yours, as far as longevity is concerned, but it’s a pity we can’t organise a coughing competition, (marks for volume of both sound and snot?)
 
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Hope you are feeling better soon marigold and you have found a good home for the hens. Glad Tony is stepping up to the oven, so to speak. Do let us know if he gets to master chef standard, and makes a tv appearance

Our neighbour at 80 was unsure about replacing a dog, but as she has people who would take a dog on if she dies, she decided to go ahead and got a tornado, also known as a Border Terrier. She has a Labrador who is nicely sedate, and then just after she got the Terrier her friend died and she ended up with his two Labradors. So she is back to 4 dogs.

As a concession to age she has stopped breeding pigs, and is just keeping her Dexter cattle and hens, Guinea Fowl and geese. Plus the sheep she has on the farm which belong to someone else, so she doesn't have much to do with them.

loved the think and thoap gag
 
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Hope you are feeling better soon marigold and you have found a good home for the hens. Glad Tony is stepping up to the oven, so to speak. Do let us know if he gets to master chef standard, and makes a tv appearance

Our neighbour at 80 was unsure about replacing a dog, but as she has people who would take a dog on if she dies, she decided to go ahead and got a tornado, also known as a Border Terrier. She has a Labrador who is nicely sedate, and then just after she got the Terrier her friend died and she ended up with his two Labradors. So she is back to 4 dogs.

As a concession to age she has stopped breeding pigs, and is just keeping her Dexter cattle and hens, Guinea Fowl and geese. Plus the sheep she has on the farm which belong to someone else, so she doesn't have much to do with them.

loved the think and thoap gag
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I love ‘tornado.’ Goes well with ‘Norfolk Terrorists.’
 
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