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That's helpful, Linda - thanks!

AG, Esme’s pill cutter is an expensive one from this website
https://pillcut.com/

She has so many tablets which need to be chopped up, so they got a good one, they have had it for years.
The lid lifts off and the blade is hidden in the top. To use it you put the pills in, put the top on and press down. Looking at some of the cheaper ones on Amazon, they are just for small pills. Esme’s is adjustable, so it grips all sizes. This one on Amazon looks fairly similar
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Fullicon Multiple Pill Cutter, Adjustable Pill Cutter for Small Pills with Accurate Pill Alignment, Stainless Steel Cutting Blade & Blade Guard, Pill Splitter with Free Brush & Pill Box (Black). It was £8.99
It was reasonably well reviewed, apart from that I can’t help

It is great news that the house sale is going ahead Sylvia. I never look back at houses either, when I walk out, I just look forwards . Normally, I wouldn’t go back, but with being such good friends with the next door neighbour , I often go to see her. The two houses shared the first part of the drive, so I can see what they gave done outside. Apparently, they are digging out lots of my garden plants at the moment. I only saw the inside once, just after we moved and I had to go to collect some blinds which had been sent there by mistake. We had put an Oak floor downstairs which was oiled. They had got someone to come in and seal it with a high gloss finish, so instead of looking like expensive oak, it looked like cheap laminate :-(

We were having a lie in this morning, when the doorbell rang at 8.30, so OH leapt out of bed to answer it. It was the roofing company we had accepted an invoice from yesterday to redo all of the ridge tiles. They said they would come sometime in the next week, but were a bit quick off the mark. It sounds like a herd of elephants are on the roof. I need to go in the shower, so I hope that they can’t see through the blinds :-D

AG, I will have a look at Esme’s pill cutter over the weekend

Oops - I spoke too soon. It's suddenly started hailing heavily!

That is good Sylvia that it will soon all be completed and you can forget about it.
Lovely sunny morning here in gloucestershire and 9 degrees at 0815. No wind to speak of at the moment either.

Florence, that will be good to get the second eye done quickly and get that out of the way.
Linda another tiring week for you to look forward to. Is daughter going away more often at the moment?

What a relief for you, Sylvia, to have the house sold at last! A big weight off your shoulders.

There's no lily-of-the-valley, but otherwise my garden has the same plants as your old one.
But my rhododendron is a deep red, and the crocuses aren't what I would call a patch, but more scattered.

There was a big patch of lily-of-the-valley in a shady corner of my childhood garden, and their perfume takes me right back there.

Good news about your cataract, Florence . You had such a long wait for the first one.

I hope your new Hoover arrives as expected today, Joan.
You're certainly going to be busy with medical things - will your daughter be able to take you to all these appointments?

Linda - what make is Esme's pill cutter? Amazon has lots of different makes, with varying reviews.
What really worries me is the possible future necessity of the kind of pill which has a coating on it and which is supposed to be swallowed whole, so that it doesn't start dissolving until it's in the stomach.
In that case I would just have to do without, unless they were really tiny.

The rain was torrential and horizontal here yesterday - horrible!
Today seems a lot better so far, or at least it's not raining, although dull and overcast. Thank goodness - as I need to head to town for groceries.

Joan ................ I'm so sorry to hear that you were diagnosed with a heart attack, but you're lucky it has been caught early!

Florence ................ good that you can get the other cataract done soon. That happened with me, and it is so much easier than having to wait months!

I was at the lawyer's this morning to sign all the papers for closing the sale of the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr Yoo re-assigned the contract to 2 couples, whose lawyer had sent all the necessary documents to our lawyer. It seems from questions they asked my agent that they might be thinking of renting the house out, but it doesn't matter to me! I feel as if it is past history now!

Tomorrow the 2 lawyers exchange papers and money, the cheque will be credited in my bank on Monday. My agent is meeting the other agent at the house on Saturday to hand over the keys and answer any questions.

I haven't been back to the house since I left it on August 8, but I am missing plants in the garden at the moment with spring coming .................. we had lovely patches of crocuses, lily-of-the-valley, bluebells gone wild, a huge Camellia with pink flowers striped with red, an even larger pinky red rhododendron.

But it's now the past. If only OH would now accept that we are not moving out of here to another house, or that he does not need to get a new driving license or passport. Big sigh!

It is good that they are going to do your other eye quickly Florence.
It is a very nice day here, also my daughter’s birthday, so we are all going out for dinner. I looked at the menu on line ,it doesn’t look very Slimming World friendly :-(
I just stayed the same weight this week which is annoying as I still need 2.5 lbs off to get back into my target range when I don’t have to pay for the classes. We are going out for brunch on Mother’s Day as my daughter had to leave mid afternoon for a five. Night stay in Barcelona for work. We will be looking after the girls all week, so eating things which I normally wouldn’t have, so I won’t be losing anything next week either :-(

Afternoon all
Just back from 6 week check up post cataract surgery. All went well but he has referred me straightaway form the other eye to be done.

This time i would be put straight onto the theatre list and not have to see the surgeon first!

Joan i'm so sorry to learn that you had had a heart attack, how stressy for you to hear that but glad he's prescribed you some meds to help.Ii take Atorvastatin and yes its quite big but...What i do is eat half a biscuit then have a glass of water beside me so i can then take a big gulp to wash down the biscuit and the tablet.

Bit a pill cutter might be easier.

Raining hard here and blowing a gale as opposed to the lovely sunshine and heat my dad is getting down on the south coast!

back home now and chilling for the rest of the day.

Florence in the hebrides

I'm fortunate not to have to take any large pills so far, but dread the possibility.
The pill cutter's a great idea.

I think I'll get one - just in case!

Joan so sorry to hear about you having a heart attack . I am on statins as well as blood pressure tablets and the statin one is big and sometimes I find it difficult to swallow.
I might get one of those pill cutters that Linda mentioned.

My OH has various issues and has to take 12 tablets a day as well as his insulin injections , I moan about taking 3 a day.

Oh dear Joan, I am sorry to read about your heart attack.
If you have trouble with tablets, buy a pill cutter, you can get them in chemists, or on Amazon, for three or four pounds. You can chop the tablet into half, or quarters, or tiny bits. Esme has her tablets chopped into tiny bits and they are then sprinkled onto a teaspoon of yogurt which she washes down with a drink. It is much easier than trying to swallow a large tablet and the cutter is very easy to use.

It has been a lovely day here. We got the bus to Harrogate because OH had an optician’s appointment. He needed new varifocals and a second pair of varifocals as sun glasses, so that was an expensive day out . We had a nice lunch while we were out and I bought some packets of herb and cut and come again lettuce seeds

Good afternoon, it is a nice day but not been outside.
I was at the Drs yesterday a follow up from when I took ill recently, he has deemed my incident as a Heart attack & prescribed medication !
Bisoprolol, Atervastatin, & Aspirin.

I'm not the best re medication, never been one for taking tablets, & a bit concerned about the ones I've listed, the Atervastatin is "huge" & I just know I will struggle getting it down,
I have to have a Chest xray an ECG & some blood tests done as well, I'm going to be busy going to & fro at the Health Centre over the next couple of weeks.

Stlll waiting for the new hoover to arrive, been told Friday so heres hoping.

Joan.

Hello all,

It is now a lovely afternoon and OH is in the garden moving things around . He has also done a new net cover for his pond after he lost some fish to a Heron. The last cover had ripped and he had not replaced it so Mr Heron took a chance and stole a meal or 2.

Joan I also need a new lightweight vac for upstairs . I have a Shark vac downstairs but it is too heavy for me to use so OH vacs downstairs

All my blood tests were normal so I can say I am normal in that aspect anyway. :-D :-D

Hope everyone else is enjoying some sunshine , I am going to see what OH is up to in the garden, will take him a cuppa as an excuse to nosey. ;-) ;-)

Take care all.

That was an excellent use of your time AG :-D

Speaking of the non-traditional names nowadays -

there was some mention on TV this morning of the new film of "Snow White", and it crossed my mind to wonder if anyone had ever actually named their child Snow White!

I went so far as to look on FreeBMD, and discovered a surprising number of Snows, a lot of Snowdrops and a few Snowflakes, between 1839 and 1994 - but no Snow Whites.

None of the above, in England/Wales (on FreeBMD), have the surname White, but one was born in Scotland about 30 years ago.

On Ancestry, many apparent Snow Whites are just mistranscriptions from newspapers, and from military and workhouse records.

Of those actually called Snow White (with White either as surname or a middle name) , most were born in America .

In the USA, some are dogs!
eg -
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/239154797/snow-white-jones
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219186119/snow-white-aguirre

Enough of this!
I must do something more constructive with my time!

I have a Dyson cordless as well, I couldn’t do with having to plug it in.

It was incredibly cold yesterday , I went for a walk, but had to put my hood up and put my gloves on.

Today I did my first session of school reading. It went well, but the children all had names such as Brea, Savanna, Leila, Aurora etc. Very few normal names.

We have had very low water pressure all day because of a burst main, at least we still have water, some parts of the town don’t. I was going to do the washing this morning, but it has had to wait.

:-D Joan I love my battery stick thing it is so light and easy to use and has great suction. It was very grey here this morning but the sunhas shone all afternoon so a really nice day now

Hello to all.

Florence, yes, thankfully I can get to the funeral, he was such a lovely person, a true friend, I would have been very upset if I couldn't go.
Our eldest son who lives in Morayshire is also attending.

We have a lovely day here, lovely sunshine & no wind, not been outside so not sure of the temp, not in the mood for outdoor jobs, lol.

I ordered a new vacuum cleaner the other day, I need it for the upstair rooms, I do have one already for upstairs but it's rubbish !!
Poor suction & no extension tool so I have to stoop to reach the edges etc.

Hoping the new one works better, & it does have an extension tool, lol, the reviews for it are good.
I purchased it from my catalogue as I was offered a £30 OFF offer, it had already been reduced in the sale & with the offer it brought the price down to £53.
It looks very sturdy & corded, NOT one of those battery stick things, just don't fancy those !

Hope everyong is having a nice day.

Joan.

Afternoon all

Joan, so sorry to hear about the loss of your hubbys friend. I guess as we all reach a certain age, its inevitable that gradually we lose those closest to us. Are you able to make the funeral perhaps with your daughter?

Its blowing a gale here and pouring hard after the beautiful day we had yesterday where I was walking along a beach with fab blue skies!

Of course its bin day too lol

2 weeks until we go away to see Michael ball & Alfie Boe on the mainland. Im getting quite excited now especially as we have front row seats. How spoilt am I!

My veg are sprouting daily at an incredible rate. My rhubarb has a second shoot now and already is several inches high. Many more beetroot and carrots have appeared over the weekend and need lots of watering as the heat inside the tunnel is very warm.

Come the summer, we shall leave the doors both ends open to get the air through during the day.

I bought a blueberry plant and 6 strawberry plants on Friday so shall be interesting to see how well they do and how much fruit they produce.

Hope everyone looking in today in well and having better weather than we are!

Florence in the hebrides