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Getting mums shopping a couple in front of me at the checkout looked at a sign by the cafe which said "Morrisons cafe will be closed on 17/7 re opening 18/7 woman looked at the man she was with and said
"is that today, cos where we going to have breakfast?"
"No today isn't the 17th, i think today is the 20 something, I think it means next month"
" Oh whats with the 7 bit, thats confusing" !!!!
That was the point the cashier actually stopped passing stuff through the checkout as she was in shock at that.
the man said " I think thats means the month"
"well how are we supposed to know which month they mean"
Scary or what
 
Mum is home the hospital decided to get things moving whilst we were away in Wales, just for once my brother had to get off his backside and actually do something.
The hospital were insistent that she has carers popping in a couple of times a day as well as me. Which means mum is up washed and dressed and breakfasted before they arrive "I don't want to make them work they are very busy"
She is doing well, very mobile now, and seems much brighter, eating well and ordering everyone around.

The people that get on a bus usually go shopping via bus to, as all the low income, unemployed in the area the buses operate get free travel, some of them are on them riding around all day.
 
Sounds as if the provision of carers is doing more for your mother's recovery than their actual help would be. When I was working and had two teenagers I had a cleaning lady who came twice a week to muck us out. The night before, t took me quite a while to get the house tidy enough for her to enter!
 
As mum worked in London during the Blitz and did fire watching on the roofs after work, and was never late for work even when Hitler himself tried to stop her by bombing the rail line (her words), I can't see her letting a few carers get in her way or slow her down
 
About the unemployed people riding around on the buses all day, I do have some sympathy.
When I was out of work in my youth, I couldn't afford to heat my bedsit so to get away from the ice on the inside of the windows (obviously not this time of year...) I used to hop on the bus & go & do voluntary work in exchange for warm surroundings and free coffee.

Mind you, the DHSS then wouldn't pay me benefits, because I was doing something useful rather than shivering on my derrière :-)09
 
I wasn't being derogatory about all the people who were unemployed, but we have a breed here that think that counts as work if you know what I mean. You do get caught don't you if you decide to do a bit of voluntary work as my daughter found out once.
Good one yesterday on the bus, a girl was moaning as she had been in countless card shops and was unable to find banners or balloons that said Happy 30th Birthday Grandma !
 
BYM, good to hear your mum is home and doing well. Even if she doesn't really "need" the Carers right now, it's always good to have them going in from an early stage, so she will be used to them. All to often, by the time a person really needs them, they then won't want strangers coming in doing things, interfering, etc. etc.! This way, as your mum gets older, and as she relaxes with the Carers & gets to know them, and if they are good at their job, they will be able to gradually take over doing bits for her.
 
I think mum is taking to them better than I thought she would, she doesn't see the same one every day so she gets different people to chat to, plus us going in, various neighbours, hairdresser once a week. She is getting very sociable these days. For 94 she doesn't do too bad and is getting about quite well at moment. At least we have finally got her to wear her alarm pendant, in case she falls. She used to put it on the table.
 
Hope that's making things a lot easier for you. They are terrible about wearing their pendants aren't they! Brushing down the cottage stairs one day MIL slipped and got stuck between the bottom couple of stairs and the door. She couldn't get up and she couldn't reach the door latch to open it. Eventually she managed to push the latch up with the brush. Where was her pendant? At the back of the worktop!!
 
Mum says " but we have pull cords by the doors" which is ok as long as you fall over next to the door. She used to put her pendant by the phone, which was on a wall unit, not even on a table near her.
 
Yep. My mum frequently leaves her pendant on her bedside table. And as for getting her to take her mobile phone with her when she goes out! "Sure I won't need it! Nobody will be looking for me!" Mind you, the one time she did have an emergency, when her hip broke and she fell while out on a walk, her phone got smashed in the fall! Luckily, she was almost home, so in the housing estate, and was quickly rescued.
 
Hi there, and yeah sure! As yet i dont have any chickens, but my missus and kids are really bugging me as they would like to keep some! They keep bringing up forums and sites like this one for me to read up on and be worn down to saying yes haha! im just after general info at the mo
 
That's great, lots of helpful people on here. You might not have noticed the link to the main Poultrykeeper website at the bottom of each Forum page, masses of info on there, especially about starting out with your own first chickens.
See https://poultrykeeper.com
Also, the General Chickens section on here has lots of topics about choosing runs and coops, what sort of birds to get, and other fascinating subjects.
 
chix67 said:
Hi there, and yeah sure! As yet i dont have any chickens, but my missus and kids are really bugging me as they would like to keep some! They keep bringing up forums and sites like this one for me to read up on and be worn down to saying yes haha! im just after general info at the mo
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Go on! Give in. Your doom is already sealed! :D :D It's just a matter of how many, what kind etc.
 
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