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  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    I loathe doing shopping due to my high anxiety levels, due to my ASD I tend to use my AirPods as a barrier to block out external noises.

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    I’m fortunate to have a small area I can put a few pots out, be good to reignite the old former gardener in me. It’s fair to say when the barrels arrived you could smell the Whisky that had been inside them. I’m going to try and get both of them varnished tomorrow and then return them outside and plant them up before the first frost and snow sets in. I want to get a trough to go with the barrels and put in perennial poppies alongside 3 WW1 Tommy Soldier lights to not only remember the 3 Great Grand Uncles I lost in the Great War but also those of my family who also served in both wars and all those who have fought and died for King and Queen.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering

    I love those barrels. They look so nice. I live on my earphones as well... It helps as any noise gets me very anxious.. honestly anxiety is awful.. and I get suspicious of people as well . So I try not to confront anybody.. I also hate those machines.. but now they made the tills so small it is better to use the machines.. shopping is done until maybe two or three weeks time..

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering

    It is also a very nice tribute.. in a way wars are senseless. And a lot it is lost because of them.

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    Good evening everyone how’s everyone doing tonight?

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    I just find supermarkets to be to stressful, busy and full of ignorant people. People today don’t have manners and tend to just barge you out of the way, the one big thing I hate is a self serving till 😤 I have arguments with it 😆

    Just hoping the weather is ok tomorrow as I want to tidy up the front of the flat and then get the barrels varnished and dragged down the stairs which will be fun.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    I read 9 generals have written to starmer voicing thier concerns was quoted that soldiers wont habe to worry who's in front of them but the lawyers behind them something like that

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    what’s gone on with the harassment in the Army is scandalous, people need to be held to account

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    Sat like an old man 👴 rocking the tartan blanket 🥶

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    after much back and forth through tv apps for a new series to binge watch, I’ve decided to dive in to the unknown 👽🛸👣🧟🧌

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering

    Watching films as well . It is getting cold ... people in the supermarket go about as if it was a competition. I am slow as I have to stop a lot. Now I try to do it and have it done.. I would not like it to have to have it delivered. ..I need to see what I buy.. now a couple of films and bedtime....even if I am already on my bed ..

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering

    Night night everyone. Hope you all ok so far. Gloomy weather really affects me. So I hope it is a bit better tomorrow...

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    I prefer ordering it online, due to my stomach condition I tend to stick to a strict diet as best I can. I tend to each month always order the same things.
    I used to sometimes have to do weekly shopping with some of the guys I looked after, fair to say it was challenging. Was always a challenge pushing a wheelchair around a supermarket, let alone a trolley.

    With my food I’ve decided that I’m going to start weighing out each item so I get the right portion size each time I use the air fryer.
    One thing I avoid like the plague is the oven, just have no confidence using it.
    Our lives will be more complicated next year when the council, my local council will be providing a green food bin to sit alongside the existing blue and black bins. With the new food bin, will come a food caddy for in the kitchen! Going to need an estate if they keep rolling bins out left right and centre.
    My Caddy and Green Bin will be dormant as I don’t use fresh ingredients to cook a complex meal. I tend to stick to simple frozen healthy ingredients that are not processed foods. I would say 99.9% of the time there is no food wastage.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering

    @Zippy1983i only use my oven for pizzas or something that needs to be heat up in the oven… i probably should get an air fryer or something similar.. .. i used to enjoy cooking and now i only eat to survive.. the best time to go to the supermarket is not on the weekends… and early like 9 am… or even earlier but it is hard to leave home… i understand people not wanting to deal with supermarkets or busy places… i dread the public transport etc… sometimes we have no choice.. the oven also wastes too much electricity. new ovens are getting smaller and smaller as well. maybe more energy efficient.

    i really want some good weather tomorrow. no rain please but lets see… i might even go out and fight the bad weather..

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 283 Empowering

    I don’t mind the Bus journey’s, but sometimes they can make me anxious as today when an inconsiderate passenger literally crushed me into the side! Fair to say my anxiety decided to say hello.

    I’ve got a barrel three quarters already varnished from a few weeks ago, going to finish that and do the other tomorrow and roll them outside after sliding down the stairs.

    Some leaves have decided to congregate near to my plants and compost bags, going to give the area a tidy and hopefully if the weather is good I can plant things up.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 1,011 Empowering
    edited November 2025

    There are not nice people . I avoid everything in case they get it as an excuse to get into a fight. The world is a a battlefield in my eyes.... All is see is obstacles one after another... gardening is very therapeutic...

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,796 Championing

    Starmer wants us defenseless god imagine if they did a military coup cant see it myself but one can hope

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 213 Empowering

    good morning to everyone hope have a nice day ahead feeling little bit better today so let’s see if can manage bit of pain

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    good morning everyone how's everyone doing?

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    I'm good thanks I have been to a ball only just got up an hour ago

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    it was Winter Wonderland themed

  • jonf
    jonf Online Community Member Posts: 391 Pioneering

    I was born up