Moan, Moan, Moan - 2012

[Martinr]

I'm really depressed now....both my car and house insurance are cheapest with Saga

[Maggi Young]

Don't fret, Martin.... you'll always be a cute young thing in your avatar, at least........

[David Nicholson]

I'm surprised! I normally find they are the dearest of the ones I try. (Sex And Games for the Aged)

[angie]

Don't fret, Martin.... you'll always be a cute young thing in your avatar, at least........

Maggi I was thinking exactly that 

Angie 

[David Nicholson]

Google is beginning to annoy me   No sooner have I started to type a search request into the box than I'm "whipped" into a page of results that I haven't asked for and I have to go back to the beginning and start again. Why has everything in this world got to be 'instant'. I CAN WAIT

[Maren]

The good news is that I had a great time at the London Orchid Show and lots of friends and some forum members turned up, and the discussion was more about the incursions of unwanted wildlife into peoples' greenhouses than anything else.

The other good news is that on return from the show, another rat had found its way into my rat trap.

The bad news is that I fell off my horse on Sunday, broke a couple of ribs and slipped a disk, which has rendered me unable (temporarily) to lift things; fortunately my friend Ann was on hand to help me, so all the unsold pleiones were put back in the greenhouse, having spent a night in the car at -2 degrees C. No sign of damage, though, so there is more good news than bad news.

...and, it only hurts when I laugh.

[Maggi Young]

Crikey, Maren.... you need to have warning lights around you!  Sounds like a very nasty fall but you sound very positive so that's a comfort. Now you will have to take things easy to alow yourself to get properly fit again..... do you want a very out of condition Scotswoman to come and exercise your horse in the meantime?

[Maren]

Hi, Maggi, yes, "accident prone" is what some people call it. Being such, I feel rather proud (and smug ) about how I have survived for so long.

Thanks for the offer of exercising the horse. This I would love to see , but fortunately it belongs to a an equestrian establishment and therefore gets all the exercise it deserves. Or maybe not enough because it took a big jump over a pole lying on the ground, which was rather unexpected, made me loose my balance and fall off to the left, while it continued cantering off happily to the right. I thought I had given up jumping years ago but the horse was not informed.

[Maggi Young]

I thought I had given up jumping years ago but the horse was not informed.

With some horses that sort of message can take a very long time to be assimilated 

[Anthony Darby]

Sounds serious, but you tell it so well, so can I do your laughing for you Maren?  You look after yourself and speak to that horse! I'm sure he'll nod in agreement that he shouldn't have tipped you!

[Lesley Cox]

Oh Maren, you poor soul! I'm so sorry for your accident and I wish you a speedy recovery, so far as that is possible. It will be frustrating not being able to do what you want as easily as you normally would, but it can only get better. I especially send best wishes for a disk mend. They can be tricky sometimes. Stay cheerful but not too much laughing. Keep it to soft chuckles.

[Paul T]

Ouch, Maren.  Not good at all.

Here's to a speedy recovery.  Thank goodness Ann was there to help.

All the very best.

[Anthony Darby]

Here here.

I see the UK government are probably going to scrap the 50p tax threshold? Interesting hearing the BBC World take on it: "the people to whom it's aimed at find ways of not paying it so why have it"?! Just been listening to a guy called Mitt Romney. Isn't he the biggest tax dodger of them all?

[Maren]

Thanks for your kind wishes. Feeling better already.

[Anthony Darby]

Good news. Problem shared, and all that, doesn't usually work for aches and pains, far less more serious injuries? No point in saying "take it easy" is there?