July Army Manoeuvres

[satz123]

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I hear the dwarfs have secret meetings at 2am to document strategies around the best way to drive their parents, grandparents and indeed the entire community insane...

Discuss.

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[byebyebridgetjones]

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Morning all!

Finally had a leg shag from the boy last night when I got home from work He seems much more like himself now thank dog

Good to hear, Darl, and thanks for filling us in...

[byebyebridgetjones]

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PMSL and wink.

[starty]

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ooooohhhh I'd love a Buddhist retreat.
I fear that I would not fit in being a consumer whore and very shallow.
Example : yesterday we were going into the hospital and DD & I were admiring each others flip flops (as you do) - stopping trying them on etc. We looked up eventually and there was array of wheelchair-bound people with various leg injuries looking at us. Shallow.

I'm also not a bit calm & floaty.
On holiday myself & DD called these lovely creatures 'floaters' - just calm , thin , tall women who floated around all serene-like. Got dressed & undressed with minimal fuss and just glided into the sea.
Compare this to our 'Irishness' look in the heat ....:haha:

Pissing meself laffing :hahaha:

[starty]

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:haha:

I'm certainly not calm and floaty... more antagonistic and irreverent. Only ever did a buddhist retreat once - about 20 years ago when i lived in Sri Lanka. But whenever i've been at places that do similar (heard of Findhorn anyone?), i see quintessential hippy types - yup, all calm and floaty and...uh...stoned :haha: and i just want to find a way to disrupt their chilled out calm.

Yet... am aware that's maybe my own bitterness cos i've got a head and heart that are slowly turning brittle :egad: and i've a tendency to be negative about myself, as well as over-react to life, so look to meditation to try and find some... softness? Equilibrium.

Oh bless you. I can relate to that and it is an ongoing project to change. Hence the retreat Yep heard of Findhorn. Think my mum visited there at some point in her life. She wasnt a stoner as far as im aware :egad:

[starty]

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Morning,
Beware ........I'm in a shit mood.........have to wait 'til I see my consultant on the 3rd August before I get the all clear for work.

[MENTION=18049]RunningCourage[/MENTION]............I'll raise your bitterness and add a large dollop of cynicism ........why are retreats a tad expensive? Isn't the purpose to steer us away from worldly stuff, not to have at the back of your mind will your credit card actually bare the weight?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address.

Sorry you are feeling Shite Jax.
This retreat is not expensive I dont think. It is £200 for accom, food, meditation and yoga classes. They even discourage you from taking any money unless you want to buy books. Oh and no phones or tablets allowed. If your family want to contact they have a number for the office. Hope its not a cult!

[starty]

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Hi Bridgee hope you are well?

All stragglers and lurkers please check in. We worry!

[mollyka]

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Straggling in - 3 more shagging weeks in cast -poxy shite
Can't type now

[RunningCourage]

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Straggling in - 3 more shagging weeks in cast -poxy shite
Can't type now

did you just type that with yer big toe then?

jokes aside, sorry about that - sounds frustrating.

[RunningCourage]

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Sorry you are feeling Shite Jax.
This retreat is not expensive I dont think. It is £200 for accom, food, meditation and yoga classes. They even discourage you from taking any money unless you want to buy books. Oh and no phones or tablets allowed. If your family want to contact they have a number for the office. Hope its not a cult!

there's a place not far from me - they charge £75 for a week's retreat... BUT they suggest a donation of £440 / £280 - depending on whether one is waged/unwaged. BUT money is needed to pay for people's upkeep, the maintaining of the buildings, courses, workshops, so I suppose you'd get what you pay for.

[RunningCourage]

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:hug: Mr D'Arsey.
I don't like to see you thinking that. Life can be shite but listen to me - it's short and we need to find as much fun as we can while we're here.
Look at babies & little kids - they live in the moment and for the most part happy - in awe of everything new - till we make them conform.....
Why grow up - it's a pain in the arse ... we need to remain child-like.

My mother has returned to childlike status and it's amazing.
She is fascinated now by nature - the sea - cows - fields - dinky little milk jugs ....... as if she's seeing them for the first time.
Yesterday she saw & admired the dinky milk jug 5 times - for the first time.
(her short term memory is gone)

She's as happy as Larry because she forgets to worry about anything !!!!

Thank you Doc :hug:

I do concur. Must think of my niece more - living in the moment (I'll ignore when she takes a tantrum cos she canny have the cake in the shop and canny realise that in 10minutes she'll have forgotten about it :haha: )

[mollyka]

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sorry glum folks -- Arsey and Jackie - it's all in our control tho - in there - in our noggins - but try telling ME that when I'm glum??!! Still can't shagging type - 2 fingers ffs
Bit horrified - can't work until 14th August - Joe wants to go away on the bike - think we might... only live once etc etc......

[starty]

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there's a place not far from me - they charge £75 for a week's retreat... BUT they suggest a donation of £440 / £280 - depending on whether one is waged/unwaged. BUT money is needed to pay for people's upkeep, the maintaining of the buildings, courses, workshops, so I suppose you'd get what you pay for.

I guess if you really did not have the donation, they would still allow participation in certain circs? But yes, although many of them are volunteer run (as in the one I am going to) there are still expenses to be paid.

[starty]

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sorry glum folks -- Arsey and Jackie - it's all in our control tho - in there - in our noggins - but try telling ME that when I'm glum??!! Still can't shagging type - 2 fingers ffs
Bit horrified - can't work until 14th August - Joe wants to go away on the bike - think we might... only live once etc etc......

Yep when I am down I find it impossible to not be sometimes. I have to force myself to move to literally shift it.

That is a bugger about your hand. Look on it as enforced holibobs and enjoy

[JackieClaire]

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Funnily one of my favourite things happened.......a proper downpour, rain banging off the conservatory roof and a run around the garden in my bare feet...........canna whack it.

I'm frustrated rather than glum and tbh sometimes very, very angry.............Luckily for me there's a lot of info about post C-diff on the internet.........I was given nothing apart from don't use hand-gels use soap and water........I kid you not. Ach there's more but I'm in me own bed at night and you know I :heartbeat: my bed.

Bloody hell, Molls, you poor love..............when you've gone round the bend I'll be waiting with a cup of tea.