Anyone Else Up Yet ......... Vol. 2

Alie I wish your daughter could have some CBT - it is an approved treatment for mild depression (by NICE) so GPs are allowed to "prescribe" and I would have thought it would be available in Oxford, of all places. I suppose it just might be worth trying to speak to doctor on phone and saying that you are really worried because there is such a change in her over the last few months.

Good morning to you all. Sorry to hear about the poor annies.
You would have loved my walk the other morning when i was in Wales. A very high tide due. Walked down a little lane between cottages, too narrow for a car, past a patch of marsh where there were loads of pale pink marshmallows in bloom - on the bank at the other side of the path yarrow and scabious. Through the gate onto the marsh proper. The sea is pushing inland, up the ditches in the salt marsh, with that fast steady tidal flow you see in an estuary. Ravens are cronking over at their Tor. The marsh is fast becoming a smooth, grey sea. Marsh ponies know to find the higher ground and root themselves to the spot until the tide recedes. Even small foals that cannot have seen a spring tide before stand still by their mothers. Then over the dunes and onto the beach, where there were a thousand oystercatchers.
No humans around but me.

How many Annies are going to need rescussitating?

Good morning, you two, and any lurkers . I'm visiting DD's old school this morning with some rescussy Annies.

Morning Butter and any other early risers!

Up even earlier than usual, so took a wander outside with my mug of coffee.
The just before dawn night sky is a marvel, and I don't think I have ever seen the milky way looking so clear. An awesome sky!
Then the barn owl screeched at me twice, so I've left him to his hunting .......

....... and am back indoors to say Good Morning all!

Sorry I wasn't back yesterday. I worked in the garden and ended up very tired! I must be careful with my back today....

Sewsilver, I am so with you about worrying about our children. Once they go out of the door, they will do their own thing and make their own mistakes!
My daughter is one who always has a crisis - and has usually coped with them, I used to think she thrived on problems.
But since she hurt her back she's become very frustrated and unhappy, and said this week that the usual things aren't cheering her up - like the council gave her a new fence this week. I tell her that the only way to deal with depression is to fight it, which is what I do.
I do hope things get better for your son.

Allie, it's so hard when one of our children is suffering. I hope your daughter gets the help she needs. I was awake at the other end of the night, didn't get to sleep until 3.30 worrying about my son and woke again at 7 so am feeling wrung out. Events surrounding him are so dire I am in despair.

Up early today, 4.30, overtired after yesterday and - yes - expecting gardener at 10 am. So I woke far too early!

With doctor and daughter yesterday, did not go well. No joy from the other doctor, who is new....the other one that J is upset about was, I think, basically telling her to 'snap out of it; instead of diagnosing depression.
My daughter is miserable since.

Especially if you haven't got your specs on!!

And it's very useful on mirrors - gives you a sort of 'airbrushed' image...!

Quite.

And anyway, Bags, if you get rid of the old dust it just gets replaced by new dust...

Same here, anno. Sometimes I look at my old dust and think "gosh!" and then I find something more interesting to look at or do, like gransnet

And me I have really sore eyes...

Sneeze, wheeze, sniff!

I'm still runny nose as well!

Well, Bags I have plenty of old dust!

Oh yes - sneezing and snuffling here too.

With rhinitis it doesn't have to be pollen. Any old dust will do.

soop

Ella You sure are...

They said on TV a couple of days ago that the pollen season is more or less over. Since when I can't stop clearing my throat and I'm still sneezing!

At least I know I'm amongst friends

Bags Very best wishes to your daughter. An exciting new chapter in her life.

I couldn't understand why it is that my throat feels so sore, nose snuffy and chest feels tight. I did ask Mr soop if it could be due to pollen. He thought not.

Hay-making is still going on up here so it won't be over soon. I can usually stop taking anti-histamines by the school break in mid-October and, like you, start again in February.