We went to Lidl (in Parthenay) this morning only to find that some of the local farmers had left loads of old tyres, straw bales and piles and piles of soil both at the entrance to the car park and the shop itself. Nobody was able to get into the shop which was closed anyway!
Not sure if that will be cleared by tomorrow morning to revisit, but we were disappointed not to be able to go and do a ‘look round for bargain’ shopping trip. Aldi (which recently opened) is on the opposite side of the roundabout but hell will freeze over before we go there again. Neither of us like the staff, the layout of the shop and the difficulty at the checkout to ever go there. Our first and only visit there last year ensured we wouldn’t go inside the store again!
We weren’t thinking that at the time David - just that I had run out of their crusty baguettes (the buy 3 get 4th free ones). They are absolutely scrummy and we usually have one with some home made soup. They freeze very well too, and are as fresh as can be when you take them out of the freezer.
And I was hoping they still have some Kouign Amman. @Nunthewiser posted to say they were on offer and I thought maybe they still had some available.
Never mind, it probably saved me around 100€ or so by not doing any shopping!
I did a spreadsheet last year of everything we spent that wasn’t in our normal budget - like stuff from Action, meals out, treats from M&S online, goodies from Amazon and Lidl etc. etc. and it came to around 7,000€. It’s surprising just how easy things mount up.
I went through this for quite some time until I finally managed to drag him to an ORL and eventually to a Hearing Aid shop. He keeps going on now about how brilliantly he can hear BUT apparently I am still talking too quietly! Grrrr…
You are in the right place to be treated for cancer. My wife, now a month after her passing from breast cancer, received great care at the ICO in St Herblain. The docs and the whole facility did all they could for her, but they just could not stop the progression. Several treatments slowed it down, but could not stop it. Hope you have better luck. The odds are with you if it was caught early.
This is a sad day for me. Our daughter picked up one of the 3 cats and installed him at her place in Paris. Next week, she will take another cat. I will still have one, but I’m just gutted. I’ve got to get out of this house and get on with my life somehow, but I really haven’t decided where to go, and having this one (very nice) cat does not help just now.
So sorry, such a hard time for you. It is very early days. Give yourself time to grieve and you will, one day, but maybe not right now, know where to go and what is right for you.
Ditto, very sorry for your loss. My wife has been chasing up the hospital today for a surgery date, it looked like it was going to be before Christmas but now we are just chasing for a date before we travel to France for our summer break.
Interestingly they put her on oestrogen reducing meds but we had a blood test done before she started. After the meds the oestrogen levels went up by 100%. Doc was intrigued and scheduled a test at her hospital lab and that came back 150% higher than the baseline test we had before the meds. Came off the meds, had a washout period of 4 weeks then we had our own test done again and oestrogen levels just over half of the original baseline. No interest from the oncologist as to why so just following protocols, sigh.
It isn’t so much the loss of the cats as the breaking up of our family unit. Going from 6 of us here to 2. I wish the daughter had left all the cats with me, but then how could I find another house? With the one small cat, I can do it, but it will be a bit more difficult.
I too sympathise greatly with you. almost 7 months on from the unexpected death of my wife, I was recently terrified that my trusty dog, Jules would be taken from me after a 3 week stay in an untrustworthy kennels where the owner has a history of intemperate action, after my very bad fall which may well have resulted in my own death had he not remained by my side keeping me warm and leading rescuers to me.
I think we ignore the value of trusted animal friends at our peril. Not just directly, as in my case, but generally as, sometimes seemingly distant, but nevertheless comforting mental aids. Jules and I walk through that forest twice a day past that point and I never forget his action and attitude when it mattered.
I may be grumpy for a while.
purring warms your heart.