Gahhh. I can honestly say that Bag in cahoots with another forumite have had a SPECTACULARLY ploppy start to the school hols.....

So Bag is going to run away to do some SERIOUS walking with friends in Suffolk.

I'll deal with the PLOPPINESS when I get 'ome

Plopster-Bag x

My Grandmas in hospital having suffered quite a nasty stroke. I'm rather worried about her.

Sorry to hear that, DawnF. (hugs)

Oh I missed that. Lots and lots of

Aw, thank you -

Yes, I think the 'being around musicians' is one of the great pluses of the forums.
Sorry about your wind band though, and the changes happening to your job.

And very sorry to hear about your grandma, Dawn. Hope she recovers well.

Thanks all. Can you please send those virtual hugs to my gran not me and as many good thoughts and prayers too please ....

Sounds like its a minor stroke - doesn't show up on a scan - but has taken away her ability to speak.

Apparently she's trying though but can't get owt out. How frustrating

She's physically quite strong but has also lost some movement on her right.

She should make it through but we're worried about quality of life .... and I'm supposed to be going away next week...

As My gran describes herself she's "a tough old bird!" but she's nearly 88 and can't be tough forever ...

Of course Dawn. Thoughts and prayers in your gran's direction. I do hope she will be better soon and not have any sequals.

Virtual hugs, good thoughts and prayers for DawnF's Gran.

noodle was active 'til about a week ago



Thinking of you, your gran and all in the 'F' family.

With respect - noodle WAS 'made to go' by some deeply unpleasant circumstances. Some people may de-register because they simply 'grow out of the forums' but others don't go out of choice.

Thoughts go to Dawn's grandma.

As for my SCREAM of today, I'm sure people will know what it is ... I'm so annoyed I've made a thread about it. Sometimes I really do wonder if we've said goodbye to the 21st century and visited the dark ages with the attitudes of some people!

Agreed that this is MEGA-ploppiness. Forget it all during your nice Suffolk walks, Bag...

I'll take your word for this, but still don't really follow. People often talk about problems with PMs, but you can block particular forumites, and why let one person's nastiness drive you away? I do understand that perhaps something like that would make you want to go, but isn't that your own choice?

It's certainly sad that many of the older forumites have deregistered over the last year. It's not the same without them.

Sorry about your Gran, Dawn.

I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself... Lying in a hospital bed watching the sun come up having had no sleep, lots of blood tests and prodding and waiting for some more pain relief.

I hope they sort things out, Celeste!

hope you're feeling better soon Celeste

Ah well, Celeste, at least you can get Scotswoman-sized pain relief meant for Scotswomen! Once in a Japanese hospital I was accused of trying to work the system when a nurse asked if I'd had any pain relief and I said "No"... I'd simply failed to notice the minute dose I'd been given, oops!

Hope the prodding and needle-sticking is done with soon, and that you get some useful answers and have plenty of support when you need it.

Seriously, there was a time in my life when I got to see a lot of sunrises in similar circumstances, and while I've largely forgotten just what the pain was like, I still remember and treasure the sunrises....beautiful, calm, sunrises...

Hugs to you too Celeste.
And thanks to everyone for their positive thoughts, well wishes etc.

Best wishes from me, Celeste, I hope things improve for you soon.

Best wishes Celeste : hope you're up and about again very soon.

Indeed. Noodle will be very sadly missed.

With respect, BM, I think if you have not been on the receiving end of this kind of thing, you may not imagine how absolutely obnoxious people can be. It can reverberate beyond the forums, and therein often lies the decision to leave. I don't know the precise details in Noodle's case, but I have known of teachers being put in an impossible situation in the past: it's possible for your livelihood to be compromised by an unpleasant and determined other person.


Celeste - hope you are feeling better and home very soon. I remember my mum being sleepless in hospital after falling and breaking her wrist many years ago, and being cheered by watching the sunrise and describing how it made a sleepless night worthwhile. xx

Do hope you start to pick up a bit soon, Celeste *hug*.

This is in no way meant to be argumentative, but I'm also puzzled as to how things reach this stage. (This is not to say I'm disputing that they have, as I know nothing whatsoever about this situation - or others which have recently caused people to leave and/or where people's real lives have been affected.) I would have thought that it is possible to keep people at arm's length on an internet forum, but perhaps there are some really determined and nasty people out there. After all people do all sorts of strange and horrible things in the real world, so I suppose there's no reason why it should be any different here.

This is more of an Aarrrrgghh! Stressssss, stresssss, and more stressss. Everyone else wants me to do things, and they've even started reminding me to do things when I've still got a long list left over from last week, when I was doing things for other people. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I wouldn't mind if I was being paid hundreds of ??s but this is family!

Sorry. End of rant.

Thoughts and hugs to everyone else, like Celeste, and Bagpuss, and Dawn and her gran, and Maggiemay please don't go.

Thanks, maggiemay. I can see that if one's livelihood were at risk, it could be necessary to de-register. I was looking at it as if no-one's identity was known in real life, which clearly isn't always the case. It's a great pity that so many enjoyable areas of life are compromised by one or two odd people, but it's no good pretending that it doesn't happen.

I am so sorry to hear that and sincerely hope that noodle will at least continue to read the forums and will be able to come back and join us again one day.

What does ploppiness mean? Ive looked it up on line and cant find it. Its bugging me!!

Plop = P.o.o.

Get the idea?

I didn’t know noodle had gone

I'd wondered that as well. I assume it's a London or Southern term of some sort, but don't know what it's equivalent would be... I've got the message that is isn't a good thing, even if I don't have a clue what it means.

Hope things are better, Bagpuss.

Edit: just seen the post SueHM made while I was typing...

I use 'ploppiness' as a word : it is indeed general annoyingness and suchlike, and is, yes, a reference to p-o-o.

I think it's a great word!

W

I can't think of any way noodle can have ruffled anyone's feathers and I hope it was no one on here.

Not so much an Argggghhh as a Hmph...

It's pouring rain out of the blue and all of my plans for today involved being outside



At least I won't need to water my newly planted grass seed

Always a silver lining.... Please send the rain down here. I'm getting fed up with using the watering can.

Just where was the heavy rain shower or two I was promised last night?! Nothing!

I just thought I would post my arghhhhhhhh.

I decided to do the kitchen and the old tiles needed to come off. I also ended up with large parts of my walls missing. Going to have them re plastered tomorrow morning. I seem to though got a lot of rage out of system as smashing up tiles was quite therapeutic. My second argghhhhhhh moment was my new tenor recorder arrived and I cannot play it as my hands are too small. GRRRRRRRRR

Oh well the week can only get better.

Helen

Belated to Celeste and to Dawn for your grandmother.

Hope your week does get better, Princesslaughton

Only just caught up with this thread.

Dawn, best wishes to both yourself and your grandmother. Hope things improve soon.

Celeste, many sympathies. I have also seen too much of the inside of a hospital recently (mostly a blur of surgery and morphine). I came home 5 days ago, but many difficult weeks / months ahead. Hope you get sorted out soon and catch up on your sleep.

My AAAARRGGHHHHHHH is wondering whether, after all that, I will actually ever walk normally again.

Sorry to hear you are going through it, Misterioso. Wishing you all the best and a good recovery.

Fingers crossed for a swift recovery

The stupid hot weather is causing me to have to tune my violin every 2 minutes!

What she said

^^^
Agreed.

Am feeling rather sad because one of the students I was teaching last week has just lost her brother, in Australia, at the age of 29. She had a phone call from home on Wednesday to say that he had just been diagnosed with leukaemia and would be starting chemo that night. And on Saturday he died...awful...

Thanks - seems the docs are now saying that she did have a massive stroke after all. Mum says that there's been no change all week. She' not at all "with it" seems very unaware and cannot speak or feed properly

I've not been to see her as Mum says that she really wouldn't be aware of it and I kind of want to put off seeing her like that. I have much better memories. Though I've not seen as much of her in recent years ( mainly due to her ill health and not wanting to burden her by descending too often with the kids) we've been very close. I love my gran and it's upsetting to think what she's like now.

I've my mum's blessing ,as it were, to go away next week - we'd lose the money if we didn't and the kids'd be so disappointed and there's nothing we can do if we don't go. Mum says she'll keep me informed if there's any change either way.

Misterioso. Hope it's all worth it and that you make a rapid recovery.

Cyrilla - Big hugs to you too.

for Dawn and grandma.

Celeste - I hope you get better soon

Gosh what a bad week for Forumites and their loved ones in hospital!!!

Will be thinking of DawnF and Gran, misterioso and Celeste over Easter.

Thanks Guys. Thinking of you too Celeste.

My mother in law (86) is now in hospital 270 miles away, so my wife has been down there in East Suffolk for over two weeks, I popped down just for last weekend. She hopes to get back just from Sunday-Tuesday, then back again. She had to go off the day after our first grandchild was born, so has only seen her briefly on the afternoon she was born.

My Dad (90) has twice in the last week been taken to hospital in Keighley with abdominal pains, but they've done loads of tests (scans, ultrasound , ecg etc) and can't find anything wrong ! He had just started to play Crown Green Bowls again, and has been remarkably fit for his age.

Oh dear fsharpminor You do seem to be having a grim time. Hope Your family are soon well and reunited again.