Februrary Army 2022

[mollyka]

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YS is doing GREAT Mers.
100 days sober now.
Has lost a stone in weight doing what he's always loved.
Eating well, 60k cycle every saturday & gym 4 days a week.
I'm worrying now that's not the real world is it ? Ye know the daily mundane doings of work etc.

He said a lot of past 'residents' have made their homes down in Waterford & settled there happily.

May be what he will do too :egad:

That makes complete sense...a support network in the area as well...Delighted he's doing so well...I know my roommate did a 6 month half way house and she had counselling re. moving on to 'real' life...I'm sure they'll encourage him to apply for jobs etc. so he has a life set up for afterwards...I'm sure housing will be much more attainable down there as well

Morning all xx

[satz123]

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That makes complete sense...a support network in the area as well...Delighted he's doing so well...I know my roommate did a 6 month half way house and she had counselling re. moving on to 'real' life...I'm sure they'll encourage him to apply for jobs etc. so he has a life set up for afterwards...I'm sure housing will be much more attainable down there as well

Morning all xx

Yeah Molls - might move there meself ..........:hyper:

[mollyka]

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Yeah Molls - might move there meself ..........:hyper:

You could do worse! I tinkered with the idea of it...it was the only place besides the West I would have considered living in...but just a tad close to my sister!

[satz123]

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Might sound daft but I'm exhausted. I'm on my own most of the time and Saturday's big party made me so fecking tired. Just too many people all talking at once.

[MENTION=7008]JackieClaire[/MENTION]
That makes sense Jacks.
I work only at weekends - so I go from a quiet house 5 days a week to mayhem of staff, phone, residents +visitors ........... having to be nice, polite and talk takes its' toll:haha:

[JackieClaire]

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Morning,
I'm stopping where I am. We're getting the bathroom done in May and Mr. JC is making noises about re-jigging the utility room and turning the garage into a small lounge. Our houses were built in the early 1970s when cars were smaller. We've got an estate car now and its back end would stick out.
Seems like a century ago when we knocked the cupboard out at the bottom of the stairs. I said.............'ooh look we can get fit a stannah stairlift now' . I was joking at the time. But time is fleeting.

[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]...............because I wear hearing aids adds to the problem with too many people talking at the same time. I would reckon 4 people is doable but get 30 people yakking its just a babble.
Daniel (my lovely ear trumpet expert) is seeing more and more younger people as the music we listen (or listened ) to is so loud................the rate of younger people needing ear trumpets has soared. I blame Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Led Zepplin (they were crap) and many more for mine.

[mollyka]

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I work along side a profoundly deaf girl...she has a cochlear implant...and she manages ok-ish....well she did until everyone started wearing masks....not easy

[rustop59]

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Evening everyone

No not easy Molly. I don’t think I have any hearing problem but between the screen around my desk and people wearing masks I find it difficult to hear people properly.

Working week over, so nice to come home in daylight. Feet up now watching Cornation Street. Also need to get some food.

[techie]

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Thinking of you all. I think when this is all done, there will be many negative consequences of the mask requirement. Our poor children. Have a great one. Blessings x

[mollyka]

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Thinking of you all. I think when this is all done, there will be many negative consequences of the mask requirement. Our poor children. Have a great one. Blessings x

Twould have been more negative if half of us died tho Reccie...it's easy to forget how dangerous this pandemic was before vaccines and Omicron....and in countries where there is a low uptake of vaccine the death rate is still pretty bad...reading about the black death at the moment (to cheer myself uposteroops and the use of face coverings was discovered to help a lot...just not in time to save millions

[JackieClaire]

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I work along side a profoundly deaf girl...she has a cochlear implant...and she manages ok-ish....well she did until everyone started wearing masks....not easy

Bless her..................the blinking face masks saw one of mine disappear into nowhere when I took off my mask..........its prolly orbiting Mars now..............we'd just come out of a supermarket. couldn't find it. Luckily they were covered by our house insurance so we paid nothing for. £1600 isn't cheap. I'm paranoid now.

[MENTION=11089]techie[/MENTION]...............my darling daughter teaches Chemistry and Physics some of her kids can't wear masks for medical reasons, some twiddle away with them, some ping them at each other............she reckons its like a zoo. To be kind some of them wear their's properly. Her and her fiance are forever getting tested. Never had a positive and I should add..............yet.

They've stopped mandatory mask wearing mask over here.............excuse my language................but bollocks to that Mr JC and I still mask up in shops or crowded places.

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=8529]mollyka[/MENTION]................oddly enough because I'm obsessed with the the Tudors. When Henry the 8th could smell the Thames getting a bit acrid he'd up sticks and plonk himself outside of London and just front up at one of his pals as far as he could get.

[satz123]

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They've stopped mandatory mask wearing mask over here.............excuse my language................but bollocks to that Mr JC and I still mask up in shops or crowded places.

Covid aside - who the feck wants people coughing & spluttering in our faces in Tesco?
And as for the hand hygiene - thank feck for that - when I'm told by carers where some hands have been .... 'nuff said .....
I used to think some of the nurses & carers were just pernickety - wouldn't eat a chocolate from a box unless they knew who opened them & where else they'd been - but now I understand.

[IamMary]

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Evening.
Middle child tested positive yesterday morning, so there went our plan to protect her from youngest. It's coming at us at all angles.
Got them both PCRed today, just to have them logged officially, might help for travelling over the summer. Plus the antigens seem to take ages to turn up positive. Youngest has all the symptoms but negative.
Builders left yesterday, said they would be back when we were free. This shit could go on for weeks.
Mock exams will be sat at home this week.

Delighted to hear about YS [MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION], you must be very proud.
My buddy in work will be selling his cottage in wexford soon. You'll get a fantastic price as it keeps flooding and you won't be able to insurance it :haha:

Masks are a nightmare for deaf or any sort of hearing issues. I've always had to put my glasses on to hear people!

[IamMary]

Re: Februrary Army 2022

Morning,
I'm stopping where I am. We're getting the bathroom done in May and Mr. JC is making noises about re-jigging the utility room and turning the garage into a small lounge. Our houses were built in the early 1970s when cars were smaller. We've got an estate car now and its back end would stick out.
Seems like a century ago when we knocked the cupboard out at the bottom of the stairs. I said.............'ooh look we can get fit a stannah stairlift now' . I was joking at the time. But time is fleeting.

[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]...............because I wear hearing aids adds to the problem with too many people talking at the same time. I would reckon 4 people is doable but get 30 people yakking its just a babble.
Daniel (my lovely ear trumpet expert) is seeing more and more younger people as the music we listen (or listened ) to is so loud................the rate of younger people needing ear trumpets has soared. I blame Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Led Zepplin (they were crap) and many more for mine.

Bet you wouldn't change a thing though!!

[brit]

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Good morning. Nothing much to report except I had my ears syringed on Monday and now I can hear everything (nearly) . Can't run can't go upstairs quickly without getting completely out of breath. FED UP