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This is an old post from 2018. Long time , no post. Today I read a post on a blog I read and felt prompted to write this as  a reply: Thankyou for your post. I've suffered from the black dog fr as long as I can remember too. Those that don't understand an sound heartless, but I've learnt that it;s usually fear and/or ignorance that makes them react the way they do. Sometimes there is no rhyme nor reason for the depression apart from a chemical imbalance, sometimes it's reactive as you say. "This too , shall pass" is a really good mantra to have in my case. It gives me something to hold on to at my low points. I used to feel guilty about being on meds, but once read a book by someone I really admired but had no clue that she suffered from depression. She got so low that she once walked out of work and signed herself straight into a pychiatric hopital because she didn't think she would make it through th next day if she didn't!  After 2 months she wa...

Relaxing Day

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This was Max having fun in the garden whilst the sun was out. After such a lovely day yesterday, the weather has gone all scottish on us today, all grey, drizzly & driech. Put washing on and then helped MIL move fridge and clean behind it & change the light bulb in it. Whenever we come up here, I usually bring some sewing with me or do any mending or sewing that the in-laws need doing for days such as this. It's been a relaxing sort of day really and I've been content to stay close to home, doing what needs to be done at a relaxing pace, instead of charging about the countryside like a maddy, which is what we usually do when we are up here. An ordinary day really, just in different surroundings. 

On my Holidays & a couple of finished projects

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Hello again, We are on our holidays in sunny Kilmarnock for a wee while. It is  both OH's parents birthdays this week and we always try to get up here for that. Ayrshire is looking glorious today. it has been sunny and warm and beautiful blue skies. Yesterday was grey & driech. the Isle of  Aran & Ailsa Craig were nowhere to be seen. Today, driving back from Ayr, they were both revealed in all their glory. A quiet week so far, as after travelling any distance in the car, I can hardly move for about 24 hours afterwards, so Sunday, I was doped up on pain killers and asleep most of the time. Yesterday I went food shopping with M-i -L & met up with a friend from Darvel for a coffee. We spent a good couple of hours putting the world to rights. Today we went to Morrison's for breakfast, then we went to Dobbies in Ayr, to look at the Cotton Traders outlet as it is one of the few places that have clothes large enough to fit my OH. He brought nothing, but I got a ne...

GNome

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This a 40th Birthday card for a friends partner. She say's that the nearer his birthday get, the more he resembles the Gnome! I really enjoy making cards and hope to put some of the Fathers day cards on later. Hope you like this one.

3 Weeks Today.......

.... I had a wee Nervous Breakdown & have an intermediate diagnosis of Bi-polar disorder. I have seen a Doctor, been prescribed meds and therapy. Now we start putting Humpty- Dumpty back together again as she is well and truly scrambled at this present time. I have manic days when it would take a straight jacket and lead weights to keep me in one place and others when I seem to be wading through setting concrete in lead wellies and it's as much as I can do to go to the loo. David is coping well with me at the moment, some days I am alive, other days, I just exist but I am still here. Thank God !!! 
Been super busy of late & had no laptop for a while, so although I can read posts at work, I can't comment or post there. OH is having trouble at work and has a disciplinary hearing soon but the BDH have not yet provided him with the evidence of what he is supposed to have done wrong & we have no idea when it will be. To say that he is stressed is an understatement. At time it's like walking on eggshells around here. Mum seems more accepting of her situation. She will always miss my Dad terribly, but is slowly rebuilding her life and getting out & about a bit more . She's going on holiday this month with a friend. I hope she has a good time. I've started making cards for Christmas and the last few birthdays for this year and I'm also selling them at work once a month from the end of september until Christmas. We're also taking part in the Septimus Fruaglus Challenge on  http://frugaldom.myfreeforum.org/about1347.html . This is is a great challen...