Not really a PMR/GCA problem, but a reminder that in the UK this weekend, we move from Greenwich Mean Time to British Summer Tiime. The clocks go forward one hour tonight (Saturday), or if you want to be really accurate at 02:00 on Sunday morning.
British Summer Time: Not really a PMR/GCA problem... - PMRGCAuk
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Morning SJ, you are up bright and early today, all OK?
Normal for me 😉. The wind outside is pretty wild.
Like me then. Yes it is here as well, with a bucketful of rain to go with it.
I've been awake most of night. Up in Harrogate for weekend but been blowing a hooley all night and wind beating against window. Its a miserable, grey morning! Off trying wedding outfits on later with DIL-to-be so that should cheer things up a bit.Mustn't forget the 'clocks'!
One hour less sleep.... haha!... not exactly helpful when sleep is particularly important for us all.
Good luck with the hat etc, suggest you don't put head outside the door!!! It's still, as you say, blowing a hooley here and tiddling down with rain. Have a fab weekend.
Sunny here, but blustery too….
Got the blustery bit but sadly, not the rest. Dull, overcast and wet. 🌧️💨
Not doing much outside today [got bloomin’ covid..harrumph!] - but managed to get a bit of fresh air yesterday sorting out bird table etc in garden.
Oh pooh, that's not good, hope its not too bad. Take care and look after yourself. We are off to see the (some of) GC's today so will probably get back home exhausted.
Oh heck. Sorry to hear you've got covid. Look after yourself DL, stay warm, stay dry and put your feet up and rest.
Thank you…improving thanks, apart from being a dead ringer [voice only I hasten to add!] for Darth Vader - son thinks it’s hilarious, calling me the Dark Lord 😳
Some might say it's your sultry voice. Haha. Take care.Xxx
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Wish you better soon DL 🌺
TY
Oh dear. Best wishes for speedy and complete recovery. 🌷
TY
Sorry to hear that DL, have you got the antivirals?
No. not required been off Pred for long, long time…
Get well soon
Now I have retired, I kind of ignore it, it throws and annoys me twice a year - since I had babies on 4 hourly feeds grrr!
Enjoy yourself Kendrew, I hope the wedding is perfect, weather and all.
There was a lot to be said for demand feeding ...
Yes, but how could you identify the demand?!
She woke up and demanded!!! I breast fed both the girls for + a year, always on demand and never to a timetable - and it works both ways, my demand too if I needed to go out, they got a feed first. Worked fine.
I wanted to breast feed my son and did so for 6 weeks or so, until Drs told me they wanted me to stop: "We don't want a drowsy baby". I was taking phenytoin at the time (still am) so I stopped, of course. I did ask the medical profession why they hadn't told me this before!
The NHS view is "If your doctor or health visitor says your baby is healthy, you can take phenytoin while you're breastfeeding. Phenytoin passes into breast milk in small amounts. Most babies do not get any side effects, but some babies might be more sleepy or not feed as well."
Was he feeding well? Was he sleepy?
Aha! Well, I certainly didn't realise that at the time or I might have remonstrated, but I was a young thing and would probably have accepted what the Drs said. In answer to your questions, he was feeding well and slept quite normally ie not more sleepy than other bairns. Exhausting times but happy, nevertheless!
What a shame they took that from you - but he was loved, and that is what matters, and you'd had that first few weeks which is the most important.
Such a kind reply, thank you PMRpro. He was and, indeed, still is much loved💕
I loved my time breast feeding - I cried when then finally gave it up at about a year old.
I did too, albeit for a relatively short time😒
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We got the promised rain last night - half an inch here, an inch up in the mountains so high enough up there is a bit of new snow, Bit nowhere near enough ...
Nobody here is muttering about snow yet, but I think rain is on the menu for a few days. However, it's not unknown for snow at/around Easter.
I've seen snow in Whitby in May ...
Really.??? 😲I've NEVER heard of that happening. When was that?
Back home from Blackpool and we have sunshine!!! Fab day, I'll just ignore the achy bones and muscles.
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We were over visiting early May and landed at Hull and drove up to WHitby thinking our daughter was sleeping after nights so stopped at the cafe with the big conservatory just south of Whitby for a cup of tea. Just made it into the cafe before it was almost impossible to see out!!! It was like golfball sized snowballs!
Oh my goodness. I'd never have believed it. I used to go for days out to whitby regularly when I was little and never heard of snow there. Would love to have seen it though!
My daughter had just started as a paramedic working out of Whitby and they took a patient to Scabs hospital, her third day I think it was about 11 years ago. On the way back to Whitby the ambo skidded on the snowy road on a hill and tipped over, she was hanging in her seat belt, That road gets a lot of snow ...
Blimey! That must have been scary. You and your family do like to live life on the edge don't you!Thank goodness she was ok.
I know up on the moors the snow can accumulate but I'd love to see whitby itself with a covering of snow. We're not far from the coast ourselves (Maldon) and snow is definitely rare. The coastal ports and villages seem to miss most of it.
It is interesting that you don't get a lot of snow as it is the East Coast. I lived in Ramsgate for a number of years on the Kent East Coast and we regularly had heavy snow.
Have to say, here on the N Norfolk coast we don't seem to get as much snow as inland...
The sea does keep the coastal area warmer than the areas further inland, which probably helps. Bit I do remember some bitter cold Easterly winds in Ramsgate.
Now THAT I can agree with, Bcol. Freezing cold north winds are the norm here but I do believe I'm getting used to them🥶
I lived in Durham for nearly 10 years - I had thought it would be less cold than north of Dundee! I have never been so cold in my life!!
It is the degree of northness - and like Durham, the wind comes directly from Scandinavia via the North Sea!
Ooh! Maldon - nice, Kendrew! I was brought up in Writtle, equally nice but didn't appreciate it at the time, of course🙂
Haha! Small world. We actually live in Kelvedon but Maldon is just 15mins from us. I have a friend who lived in Writtle for a long time. Know it quite well.
Writtle is a charming little village, with some lovely old houses around the large village green, including the Tudor property near the church. Quite trendy now, I understand, and expensive! I see it's marked on the BBC weather map, from time to time, as is Maldon, so must be quite 'in'😉 No doubt you know all that!
Oh absolutely! Haha!😂Seriously though...it is quite trendy.... and expensive.
My friend used to be married to the son of the people who owned Prestons garage. Sadly they were divorced a long time ago but she still lives not too far away.
How interesting! I knew the people who owned Preston's Garage - well, at least I knew the mother of Rosemary, who would be the mother of the son, I think! Somewhat complicated, but there's a connection there somehow. I could be missing a generation somewhere along the line🤔. Rosemary Preston made my fancy dress for the Queens Coronation in 1953! The world gets smaller😊
Don't know parents names but her husband was Richard.
Not sure about Preston garage, as I only really know Malden as my Godparents bought their boat from the Dixon Curly boatyard on the River Blackwater and we used to come back there for its winter layup for a few years.
I remember snow in Derbyshire in June sometime in the 1970's. I was visiting a lovely old soul wearing a sheepskin coat one time and shirt sleeves the next. As she said - didn't recognise you without your clothes!!
lol. We just broke the all time record for snowfall this year. This is our cabin last week. It has snowed another three feet since we were there.
Brighton, Utah. USA
And I left the sheets out to dry!
That'll larn you, Poshdog, as we say in Norfolk🙃
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