Anybody else up yet?

Me!

Bumping this in recognition of oxon, jet lag and anyone else who wakes early.

Heart failure patients. Heatwave can be the last straw.

Yes, though I've never quite understood why because it seems that it's usually because they haven't done obvious things like keep in the shade, drink enough, etc. They must know that you have to be careful, mustn't they? And clearly it is possible to live in very hot climates all the time because people do.

I'd agree with that, bags. Personally I prefer it hot, but sometimes people do die in abnormally hot summers in Europe.

Having lived in the tropics for a bit, I think hot and muggy, though uncomfortable, is more 'bearable' in a very basic sense. There's no 'bearing' the freezing cold without a heat source; you just die.

Libradi that sounds very painful, hopes your husband is okay now.

Yesterday I walked out of the supermarket and instantly my hands felt damp from the mugginess. This morning it's a nice morning in Brisbane, expected 33C with thunder, sounds much nicer than yesterday's 37c hot and very muggy. I wonder how you are all coping with the very cold weather in the UK. Which is more bearable hot and muggy or freezing cold?

Libradi,I hope your husband gets better soon,sounds painful (((hugs)))

gracesmum he's doing well thank you.

Yes he's got plenty of painkillers thanks bagitha the main reason for the removal of his wisdom tooth was a cyst that over the last 20 years or so had been eating away at his jaw bone. DH didn't know anything about it until a routine x ray at the dentist. He's got a smaller one on the other side but they left that as the other has taken so many years to grow.

Thank you supernana

Libradi ((hugs)) for your DH

libra, I hope your DH has painkillers to take. I had all my wisdom teeth out in my twenties (one side at Sheffield Dental Hosp and the other side, three months later at my NHS dentist in Edinburgh) because they were all "coming in sideways" and causing problems for my other teeth. Anyway, I wasn't surprised to be achey when the local wore off and my GP prescribed some good painkillers for a few days. No facial bruising though so I guess I was lucky with my dentists.

Faye you really went through the mill didn't you?
As for Libradi I hope your DH is making a good recovery but wonder if anybody seeing his face is giving you a wide berth in case it was your left hook that did it?

Re dreams and word play - when I lived in South Oxford we had a neighbour move in who was very large and very hairy....I was a bit wary of this man until I had a dream of him with no arms....and realised when I woke, that he was actually quite 'armless' !
He was a teddy bear really and my kids called him 'Fungus' from the kid's book because his name was Fergus.....

Good morning Baggy. Interesting Oxon you dream of moving and here I am helping my DIL moving. I got off the plane on Wednesday at 8am and we have been working ever since. My son has been at work most of the time. I have also been thinking to myself that I am not as fit as I was just last May when I was here for a month looking after the boys and taking the eldest to school, cooking meals, washing, cleaning etc while my DIL did her prac teaching.

I really believe dreams are strange and think it is our subconscious sorting things out for us. That was also a strange dream Gracesmum.

Four years ago next week I had the weirdest dream, the day before my third grandson was born. I dreamt that there was a baby in a basinet. Both my daughter's had in real life given birth to a baby each one and two weeks before and I didn't recognize this baby. I said 'that's not one of the babies.' A voice said, 'No, it's the other one.' Just then there was an explosion of fireworks and I could see stars and as I woke up I swear I saw a gold star floating downwards and it was just after midnight. That afternoon I got a phone call from my son saying my DIL was in labour and my GS was born the next day. Three months later when my grandson was having his second heart operation, I would often be sitting with him early in the morning (I would take over while DIL went home for breakfast) and the doctors would be doing their rounds. They would get to GS's cot and always say, 'here is our star,' because he was doing so well. It always made me remember that dream.

Oh dear, I hope he's better soon. - and your DH, gracesmum

My daughter, apart from the moving house business, has had to have a wisdom tooth out this week because of pain - and says the dentist says she should have another tooth out as she is getting bad toothache again now.....

Morning all, been up for an hour, had a good nights sleep last night apart from the usual trips to the loo. DH has gone back to bed, he had his jaw op on Wednesday, had a wisdom tooth and a cyst removed, it all went well but he says it's more painful today, face swollen and the bruising has come out.

Oh that is a very weird happening, gracesmum. Definitely spooky!

This dream was an obvious word-play, which quite often happens to me.
The emotions can stay, but if I can work out what it is about - then they don't. - so I usually try quite hard to find the key, especially if it's scary, as this was.

Now I know, it isn't worrying me any more. Looking back at when I posted, it took me an hour after writing it down....sometimes takes a lot longer!

Our dreams can be very telling can't they? Do you get the sort where while you know it was just a dream, the emotions stirred up stay with you all day?
I do hope they never foretell the future - they are rarely that good.
On Tuesday I woke up just before 8 (having gone back to bed at 6.30 when I got back from A*E) I was woken by hearing DH calling me so at first I assumed he was downstairs then remembered he was in hospital. It was round about then that he collapsed coming out of the loo and was rushed off to ressusc - fortunately not cardiac arrest, spooky or what?

I regularly watch 'Question Time' on BBC 1.
On a panel of six they rarely have more than one woman,
There are many articulate,highly qualified women I would like to see on the programme.
I must drop them a line .
Any suggestions?

Hi bagitha. The women experts do appear on Time Team - and where else?
I've (hopefully) just started a chat on this....

Morning, oxon and faye, and anyone else! Re your last comment, oxon, I think there are plenty of female 'experts' in the world, but the media is male-dominated and it doesn't occur to them to ask a woman.

Hello Faye.
That dream was actually to do with my daughter moving, which is due to happen in the near future!
She is trying to reduce what I have to do, which is in a way a relief and in a way makes me frustrated, because of the realisation that I cannot do things I have done easily in the past....but I can drive and I can support her.

The dream? I feel she is being 'railroaded' out of the house she is in, I finally clicked. I'm unsettled, but slept last night - because she has now signed for the new council house. Small - but a bijou residence!

I just stopped to catch the news, and found a report on Breakfast about the under-representation of older women on the news and elsewhere. Also about general use of repeated clips which don't present a positive image of older women. And not enough women experts. Couldn't agree more.

I am here and have been up for hours, still working hard helping my son and DIL with their house moving. The removalist come tomorrow so hopefully not too much more to do please. We went swimming this afternoon, that was lovely, swimming in the warm sunshine.

Anyone here?
I'm up early again, but this time I have slept reasonably, after a few days of being all over the place, and dropping off in the daytime.
Had a very weird dream though.
Being a refugee living in a school, and trains started coming though the playground. Then cars. So at the point that I realised that this mass of traffic was going to endanger the building we were in, I woke up. Thank goodness!
Just a dream.

Good night, Faye. Have fun with the GC tomorrow.