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Oh thank you! I tell him he's sweeter than sweet. He just had to have a few back teeth out yesterday. He's a brave little soldier! He's going to have his favourite breakfast now of egg on toast 🤣. Photos here are last night and this morning. One of his sisters, Scarperlina, just keeps staring at him which is funny but a bit unnerving. I always tell her, wouldn't want to meet you on a dark night ha ha.
Are you back from your holiday now? I've just recovered from Covid and then flu and not replied to your lovely posts. Thank you for sharing your photos, I travel vicariously through everybody else. I couldn't travel now but been abroad a lot on my own since divorce which I loved (the holidays as well as the divorce ha ha) but wasn't disabled then so very good on you doing it and hopefully getting ready for your trip to Sweden (I think you said). It seems from what you said that it all worked out really well and I'm very
pleased for you. Xxx
The black and white one is Scarperlina who stares 🤣😂.
That's a great picture ❤️
@Santosha12 what a beautiful fur family you have to care for. And big! That's a ton of snuggling opportunities at every corner!
My oh my you've been sick! Good to hear you've recovered. Thank you for keeping up on my posts. 💕
Yes, I'm back from my holidays. Are you interested in discovering travelling with your disability? I've never travelled much due to my psychiatric disabilities and financial constraints, then increasing physical limitations. So now that my back is against the wall I've decided to give it a try with an entirely new approach. Go figure! Lol! Perhaps we can share travel tips? Do you solo travel? I'll start posting more soon in the forum travel section. Yes, my long-term goal is Sweden in August 2026. I've booked the same room in Granada in four months. So that's my medium-term goal.
I just love your plans StarryEyed, and goals, and glad you're home safely. Thank you for your reply.
No, I wouldn't travel again, well, not whilst I've got my dogs who are all 8 and 9 years old, last time abroad was 2007 and flew back early as I missed my (then) dogs 🙄😅.
I have Long Covid, 32 diagnoses since 17th Nov 2020 (hard to believe it's the 5 year 'anniversary' soon!). Health worsening over time so not all related exactly to disability, as such, but ongoing illness. I'll be brief (not my strong point sorry 😂) but 8 infections this year including double pneumonia twice and each leaving my overall health vulnerable and that bit worse than before/takes longer to recover.
So my goal is much smaller than before, outliving my dogs would be a good one as wouldn't want them having the heartbreak. Despite all of this, I am happy and grateful I'm still here. I absolutely love seeing people's travels and photos, even in this country as there's a lot I've not seen. I'm lucky that I travelled a fair bit before and I do daydream about places and 'study' my globe 🫠😅.
I miss concerts and theatre the most and make sure I get the best seat in the house (well, depending if the dogs shift ha ha) when I watch things on TV. I lived in London for 20 years and really do miss the Jazz Cafe and Ronnie Scott's and the Royal Albert Hall should have had shares in them all! Keep thinking i should go back to my art and draw/paint all of these places I love. I feel like they're part of my DNA, like my dogs are! So none of this is to elicit sadness as, just maybe, I'm becoming more accepting/adapting which I've fought against doing for nearly 5 years.
So sorry, I did say I'm not very concise 🫠😊 xx
How's this for a controller? It belongs to what is classed as one of the worst consoles of all time, the Atari Jaguar. Even though the controller looks clunky and a lot of people think it's bad, I actually find it very comfortable in my hands.
@Santosha12 you said a ton in the little you wrote. Even if it was long, I would read what you wrote. So no apologies necessary. And as for feeling sad for your situation, I have room in my heart to feel sad for other people, so please feel comfortable in sharing your sadness. It lightens my load to help you carry yours. 💓
So since you enjoy living vicariously through other people travelling, perhaps you and I could work together in setting up my Travel Therapy Program? My goal is to design it so other people can use it to design their own. You could be a Travel Consultant. You like? 😊 So my long-term goal is Sweden in August 2026, medium-term goal is Granada in February 2026, and short-term goal is now in the city in which I live. What do you think?
Oh @StarryEyed , thank you. You are very sweet and very kind. And very much, like I am, as in very ORGANISED !!!
I have no sadness; nostalgia, perhaps, for better days now gone but my life is enriched far more than many, thanks to my dogs, so I do not carry, nor should you, any sadness on my behalf. As I do not. I waste no time on that.
To put it into context, I lost several colleagues to Covid and genuinely count myself as very lucky. I take my pleasure where I can get it (TV is my greatest 'connection'). I feel no embarrassment whatsoever in saying that - I may have done several years ago but certainly not now.
I will not join you on the 'Travel Therapy Program' but I thank you, sincerely, for asking me. I would have, ordinarily, been very well placed to help with your 'Emergency Preparedness Plan' (I created/then worked with Directors to implement a Disaster Recovery Plan for 2,000+ employees in London following the bombing at the London Stock Exchange and later the South Quay bombing where I then worked and escaped unharmed.
Now? I prioritise ONLY my health and well being, and, of course, my dogs. I never feel any need to 'take my mind off it' (ie health issues) , nor should I, if I wish to survive. Selfish?? Yes, absolutely, and I'm ok with that! After all I tried to help my patients with no PPE, yes, absolutely selfish and no embarrassment for that either, ever. I do the 'work' of doctors who should have, but do/have not, kept their eye 'on the ball'. That is the sadness, if indeed there's any. In the UK, here we go again with yet another doctors strike, (5 days of their nonsense) many since 2023 - had I received the proper investigations and care, I would be 'fixed' and back working well before now.
I hope others can step up to help in your admirable efforts. I offer no apology that I cannot - (my own efforts just to survive every infection I get supersede all other desires!) but I genuinely wish you so well in your efforts. I appreciate this is probably several ton (what I've wrote). It's quite hard to convey the reality (my reality), I hope you may understand that where many, can not. Take very good care xx
Hi @Santosha12 yes it's just crazy how organised I'm getting. Right? I mean, I've always been exceptionally organised, but since my feet gave out on me it's gone wild. In fact I think organisation is becoming my SuperPower! LOL!
You're right, that you didn't say you were sad; you said you didn't want to elicit sadness. My bad for misunderstanding. Sorry. So sorry.
When I suggested that you join me in the travel planning, it was in response to you saying how much you enjoy travelling vicariously through other people travelling. It certainly wasn't a response to your very clear post about how sick you are and how much work it is. That would be very cruel on my part to add work to your already huge workload. The same way I don't consider me taking care of my health as selfish, it would never occur to me that you taking care of your health as selfish. I see taking care of my health as my foremost responsibility. Ok? We're good? I hope?
Here are all of the planes, currently flying over England
It makes me wonder whether all of the journeys are really necessary in light of all of the pollution that is being created.
LOVE This Picture SOOOooO Much @Wibbles 😻
You'll probably like this one too ?
I just bought these - one of my favourite Christmas decorations. They're stickers for mirrors and windows. I adore them! Each sheet is 40 X 30 cm (15 X 11 inches), and each sticker comes off individually so that you can arrange the stickers as you like. They stick on by static. All you do is put them where you want, rub them a tiny bit, and you're done! Such fun!
Those are some beautiful stickers, especially the silver ones.
My step down converter which I use for running Japanese and American electronics (the power straight from the wall socket in the UK is too much for them).
Thank you @Ross1975 . They really speaker to my silly, childish self. The silver ones are crazy sparkly! I love how Christmas sparkles! ✨
My melting putty snowman.
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