How is your day going?

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  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 155 Empowering

    Bees? This late in the year, that is perhaps uncommon but also really nice. We've had honeysuckle blooming until quite recently, but no bees at the moment.

    For me, this is more the time of year of the geese starting their migration. But I've already seen them going in the presumably wrong direction, making me wonder if they were flying to the airport hoping to catch a plane to a sunny destination…

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 282 Empowering

    I’ve just pulled a whiskey barrel planter from the cupboard and it started to fall apart 🤬 due to me being a plonker and bringing them inside a hot and cold flat it’s dried it out. Have it some gentle taps with a hammer and then leathered it with some quick drying varnish, hopefully it will persuade the wood to swell and close the gaps to the rings. Only issue I have now is I feel like I’m having hot flushes due to just doing that! Must be my age, fine vintage of 1983. Going to be fun using cardboard as a sled to get them down the stairs with me on the stairlift 😆 just hope for a clear day Sunday and I can get them filled up for the Winter.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 792 Empowering

    Oh no. I hope you can fix it. Wood misbehave in different ways with the weather and humidity. The floor of my kitchen has gaps because the wood shrank.

    I am now back home. But my mood is not great. Weather is not good. So I will stay at home.

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 282 Empowering

    I’ve put a thick layer of clear varnish on it, I’m going to dig some picture nails out of the wall and tack a few under the affected rings to support them. Hopefully the varnish will have acted as a binding agent alongside swelling the wood to support the rings

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 792 Empowering

    i hope it will work. varnish should work as a sealer. i hope it goes well..

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 155 Empowering

    Good for you, getting one step done in the process! But then again, you are of course a very fine vintage of 1983 :)

    Tomorrow is another day, or the next, right? No hurry.

  • Zippy1983
    Zippy1983 Online Community Member Posts: 282 Empowering

    Absolutely, got injections tomorrow which I think they will be loading a Tranquilliser Gun 😆 Saturday watching Wicked For Good so hopefully if weather is ok I can get the half barrels outside

  • jonf
    jonf Online Community Member Posts: 379 Pioneering
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 7,313 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    We have some ivy in our garden that's flowering and before the cold snap it was absolutely covered in bees still. Even saw some bumble bees about. They've all disappeared since the temperature dropped though.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 792 Empowering

    Good evening all. I hope I will feel a bit better tomorrow as I am really down lately...

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 155 Empowering
  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 4,203 Championing

    Going out with Gus shortly, he won't take kindly to me telling him to stay in the warm. I will be wearing my 'Selk Bag' complete with boottees.

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 188 Empowering

    Good morning to everyone feeling bit less pained but still struggling with insomnia just wish had something that helps me sleep

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,286 Championing

    Good morning all _3 hrte

    I'm cold

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,415 Championing

    good morning everyone it has been freezing lately out there I hope you are staying well wrapped up at home

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 792 Empowering

    Feeling really anxious and my depression is getting worse... I have to go out to my session today.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,680 Championing

    Your so strong going to your session when feeling so low that takes strenght

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Online Community Member Posts: 792 Empowering

    It does help to see people I know. Next week I have a session I am leading and that is really out of my comfort zone but I will get help if it gets too overwhelming. I think my mental health will worsen if I am staying at home. But it is bad today. I am so scared about the future.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,680 Championing

    I understand honestly i feel the same I cant leave the house so I take my hat off to you I deleted alot of my social media apps as was impacting my mental health it is tough with all thats happening

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Online Community Member Posts: 155 Empowering

    A while ago, I listened to a guided meditation by Martha Beck about anxiety and it was very gentle. I especially like what she said about us being human, not broken. And that you get to feel what you feel.

    Admittedly, it doesn't always feel like that to me in the current world we live in. But hey, life is messy and so am I. So yeah, I get to feel what I feel, right?