It's Best To Know The Symptoms ...

They certainly are Soutra - but what is old to some is new to others (and I only have old stuff now )

I didn't have it till I retired. Now my days are all like that.

Snap!

Ah, thanks POGS - I am rapidly typing a response right now - was that the phone? Better go and check ....

I have a similar condition called CSC (can't stop cooking). It starts off when I decide to make pastry for a pie topping. I find I have some left over pastry and can't bear to chuck the rest of the egg I've used as egg wash, so I make the base for a quiche, fill it with whatever I've got in the fridge, use the egg, plus more eggs, cream and cheese, but find there's too much of this mixture to throw away, so I make a bit more pastry to use it up in a mini quiche but then there's a bit more pastry left over so I make another base for a bakewell tart, make up the bakewell mixture, but find there's a bit too much of that for the filling, so I add some mixed fruit to it and make a few fairy cakes, but there's still a bit if pastry left so I add some cheese into it and make some cheese straws, but there's some grated cheese left over so I decide to make a cauliflower cheese but there's some cheese sauce left over so I decide to make Welsh rarebit as it's now lunchtime because that's how long it took just to make the pie topping .........

Holly that is so funny! It describes me to a T. Every day is like that for me and it's so reassuring to know I am not alone

Nansypansy, that sounds just like me!

Nansypansy - your post did make me smile, I can just see you in your kitchen, slowly disappearing under a mountain of food lol

There you go Marmight - we really have started a 'support group(s)' (I have made it plural as we now seem to have a CSC as shysal is a member of that one!)

It's nice to know we're not alone

And there's only me!! ..... Think I better start a lunch club!!

There's only you Nansypansy (that really has tickled me)! You will have to hold a garden party and invite us all - just to help you get rid of all that food you understand

I'll be at the party bearing goodies, although I ate the Welsh Rarebit (made with left over cheese sauce) for breakfast!

Hmmm, looks like it's down to you then Nansypansy as shysal has a tendency to eat it before we get our grubby little mitts show our appreciation

Printmiss, your phone number faux pas reminded me of one of my worst. I compiled an election leaflet and it was duly printed and distributed. It was only when my friend phoned me and reported that she was getting lots of calls for me that I realised that I had absent-mindedly put her number on the leaflet instead of my own . She remains my friend to this day.

I have a problem with telephone numbers, because all landline numbers are in phone memory I don't have to key them in. Once every year I have an official comes to visit and ask me questions about our second property, last time she asked for the phone number and I just looked at her, my mind was a complete blank and I had to go and get the address book. I have had this property for twenty years.

When I was a CAB adviser, I found that precious few people knew their own mobile number - 11 digits are apparently too many. Even more had no idea of their national insurance number.

I just found my tv remote in my handbag whilst at Sainsburys checkout. No idea.

Dragonfly, you didn't by any chance try to make a phone call with the remote? I have been known to do that - and to attempt to change channels with the phone.

No idea anno. Plot. Lost.

I have a remote for the TV, a remote for the video, a remote for the free view and a cordless phone.

All black. All approximately the same length and width. So anno I'm glad it's not just me

Remember when telephones were answered with the area you lived and a four digit number? My mum would answer the phone and say 'Highbury 1947' - I think that sounds quite nice!

Darrowby 385!

My granny was 253; my uncle and aunt 254 and we, when we got a phone after the war, were 1187.