Anybody here?

[redpoppy77]

Down in the dumps

[Prada47]

Yes Yes Yes

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to Prada47]

Pop over to the virtual Bar and Cafe - it's quiet there and it be good if a few more joined us! 😊

[NorthantsSteve in reply to MichaelJH]

Is there a link, Michael? Ta.

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to NorthantsSteve]

Follow this route through the interweb - healthunlocked.com/bhf/post...

[Bagrat in reply to MichaelJH]

Well I must be persona non grata! Clicked the link arrived on Hogwarts Express, could not like your post MichaelJH nor scroll down. Reply box would not open and in spite of restarting phone no go. Will try laptop later!

[Lezzers in reply to Bagrat]

Hmm, have you previously been barred 🤔 😂

I've just tried it from Michaels link and it's really slow to load up, may be because it's had 420 replies to it!! Michael may need to expand his empire & open another bar!

[Bagrat in reply to Lezzers]

No never banned. Will try again!! Aha success in slo mo

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to Bagrat]

I find the performance variable. Another site I look at timed out. With working from home and home schooling I think the Internet is heavily loaded. Not sure that a few hundred thousand doing John Wick online together helps! 💪

[Supernanu in reply to MichaelJH]

I keep trying but bar only half opens. Is there an age restriction? Maybe at 68 I’m too old (or too young)?!

[Cards21 in reply to MichaelJH]

How do you get to that please????

[MichaelJH Heart Star in reply to Cards21]

I have just posted that I have opened the breakfast bar. Both the link and via Recent Posts work OK for me - far better than yesterday evening. See you there...

[gilreid1]

No I am here. In sunny but cold Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂🥶

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Yes, I’m free for the next 6 months or so

[Sunnie2day]

Hiya, and yes I also have had a few moments thinking 'why is this happening now?!'.

Made things worse when our Internet connection mysteriously dropped two days ago - oh my word, we came to a very unpleasant realisation we've become, ahem, dependent on the 'Net during this lockdown. I ashamedly admit to snarling a few times at my lovely husband, I certainly have proved myself a genuine Lady Curmudgeon these past 48 hours!

And then my lovely husband this morning confessed he moved the router just before it went down. And had stepped on the connector plug 'But the clip thing went back into shape...' in the process of moving the router.

I keep spares. 'Net connection and marital peace restored - I skipped telling him off for stepping on the plug and trying to run one of those 'I don't know what happened...' stories past me.

Two days offline and we weren't just down in the dumps, we were under the dumps!

I hope I made you giggle a little. A nice giggle is good medicine. A Heartie laugh is even better - hopefully Michael one of our heart stars and/or SanPedro will be along with one of their excellent jokes in hopes another spot of humour will help lift your spirits.

[080311 in reply to Sunnie2day]

Hi, Sunnie2day, glad to see you back I was getting a bit concerned as I hadn't seen you post anything over the weekend, losing broadband isn’t the best, had problems with ours before Christmas and I wouldn’t have believed how much we missed it!

Take care Pauline

[Sunnie2day in reply to 080311]

Thank-you

I couldn't believe it this morning when I decided to start at the beginning and disconnect planning to reconnect (when 're-set' and 're-boot' didn't work and the phone tech insisted everything was fine) and found the broken plug. I held it up and he got the look that says 'Oh, you know, I think I should have mentioned that two days ago.' grrrr. I am rather proud I didn't tell him off on the spot. Just went to my spares box and in five minutes we were back online.

Educational, though. I honestly didn't realise how disconnected we felt when it was down. This would be the worst time to not have a 'Net connection!

[080311 in reply to Sunnie2day]

Ours was they were laying new gas pipes! Took BT 3 visits to sort it out! Thought it was only teenagers who missed the internet! Like you felt a little vulnerable, speak to our family mostly on FaceTime even before the virus!

You were very clever to have sorted it, very impressive. Doubt I could have done it.

[Sunnie2day in reply to 080311]

Thank-you but the truth is if disconnect-reconnect hadn't worked, I was out of ideas. Good thing I did it, though, as a call-out would have been expensive. The IT guy said it was possible (but pricey) as an Internet connection is considered essential during the lockdown - but the money is better in the bank than the provider's pocket!

[SpiritoftheFloyd in reply to Sunnie2day]

Welcome back! Just makes you realise how much we depend on it.

I've got to say I'm quite amazed that the broadband is holding up as well as it is considering the number of people working from home.

[Sunnie2day in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

I'm a bit surprised myself. I telephoned the provider to see if the lines were down and he mentioned my area is one of the busiest but everything is fine (well, yes, of course it was - the fault was my husband stepping on the connector end!). The IT guy said he was surprised about everything being fine considering all the streaming on top of people actually trying to work from home.

[Mac_meister]

Get that ladder and start climbing back up wots wrong

[SpiritoftheFloyd]

I'm fine. British Summer Time started yesterday, so the night's are starting to get lighter. My health is great and while the world has closed in around me quite a bit, I'm sure there are a lot of people much worst off

[redpoppy77]

Anybody fancy a private chat.

[Mac_meister in reply to redpoppy77]

I will

[IDPJ]

What are you down about?

[Bagrat]

Paradoxically I feel better than I have since before Christmas ( when I had just finished radiotherapy for Breast Cancer) I am busy about the house and doing exs for over 70s so may end up fitter too

[JayceeW]

Hi redpoppy77

Sorry to hear you are feeling down, especially since positive thinking gets us through so much. I have been keeping in touch with the family by texting - quite a change for me at 78! I was amused last night by my granddaughter, at 22, telling me she had just made her boyfriend a ‘Sunday dinner’ and that today she was going to try lemon chicken, it takes me back 55 years to when we were first married. We were invited round to two of our friends who were married just before us, where we discussed ‘first’ meals. Wendy made Ken his favourite meal cauliflower cheese - which would have been great if she had realised that the cauliflower had to be cooked! It still brings a smile to my face - especially when I think of Ken trying to eat it in order to please her.

Hope things are looking brighter today. Keep smiling!

[Hiyaall in reply to JayceeW]

Lol I made moussaka when a newly wed and used avocados instead of aubergines, I wondered why the recipe didn’t mention the stone in the middle!

[JayceeW in reply to Hiyaall]

Love it! It kept us both smiling.

[Routemaster in reply to JayceeW]

My mother told us how the first time she went to see a friend after she was married she left my father his dinner in the oven and told him to take it out an hour later. My father had a science degree but still tried to take it out with his bare hands. My mother came back to a smashed pyrex dish and dinner all over the kitchen floor!

[JayceeW in reply to Routemaster]

A friend of my husband’s decided to go to the pub on his way home. Some considerable time later his wife rang to tell him his meal was ready. Not ready to go home he told her to put it in the oven. She did - when he returned home he found it in the oven. The lettuce was a brown stain on the plate and the eggs could be bounced off the walls - was his description. I guess his wife had had enough of the nightly ritual!

[Routemaster in reply to JayceeW]

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[Rosei]

I am 85, and very pleased that my mother taught me to knit, crochet and cook, when I married (to a consultant Radiologist) we had four children, the youngest had Cystic Fibrosis, consequently I had very little time to myself, I made the girls clothes and knitted for everyone including myself, I never could manage a nice collar on the boys shirts. At present I am knitting for my 8th great grandchild due in June.

Harry(can't remember his second name) said "if you can't live with yourself, , you can't live with another person"

I wish you all well, my family told me to isolate three weeks ago, so I am in for the long haul, the worst of Covid19 is yet to come.

[Dempo in reply to Rosei]

How lovely, to have been a knitter all your life! Stay safe!

[Hiyaall]

I’m feeling down too I’ve been trying to stick to the heart health diet to get my cholesterol down and I’m gaining weight not losing it! Despite increasing my five a day fruit and veg and eating grains etc! I’m tempted to try the keto diet now but the site does not seem to give positive info on it. I’m slipping towards you tube doctors who are rubbishing all our current advice. Has anyone had good results? Has anyone managed to avoid medication? Has anyone lost weight on this?

[Ianc2 in reply to Hiyaall]

if you give the Mediterranean diet a few tweaks and lose the sugary stuff like cakes, biscuits, and white bread (try wholemeal instead).

Cut back on potatoes and have sweet potatoes instead. Fill yourself up with beetroot, celery, carrots, spinach and salad vegetables and your usual protein

If you have a good look at packaging you will probably be astonished at the amount of sugar that gets included under a whole raft of different names.

Some fruits are rich in fructose so, for example, try apples instead of peaches. If you would like some recipes have a look on the BHS website and diabetes.org. It is all a bit of a game.

[Cards21]

Hi, difficulty Times. I see no one all day but today having a Grocery delivery. I’m trying to count my blessings.

[mariancolyer]

Sorry you're feeling down in the dumps but no wonder ... However, no matter how tough this gets, we will all get through and two phrases I hold onto are "All things must pass" and I tell my kids all the time "Every negative has a positive." Spring is on its way and in the garden the trees are budding. Summer is just around the corner and this will all be history soon.

Be assured... All will be well.