I am always saying i must get a Sky + box, still never got it sorted ! it will probably be repeated, i may watch it then. i was very tired last night, so wouldnt have taken it in anyway . Hope you enjoy it , when you get a chance to watch squiggle x

I agree Skylark, I find the heat very tiring.  Its very brave of you to be cleaning today what with the heat and I thought you would be resting after your exertions with the little one.  As Mildred Pierce is on Sky 1 I would have thought it would definitely be repeated some time this week.  It might be rubbish but I will have a look see.

Ooh it is hot here now (the sun beats right through the windows on this side of the house as it sets) < red face indicates heat not anger

Hi squiggle, the heat is awful, the perspiration was pouring from me, i can tell you! i just got the bathroom sparkling and the son wanted a shower 
We are expecting thunder tonight, hope it comes soon to clear the air.
Hope you are keeping yourself cool squiggle  

Will say goodnight, son has physio appointment in the morning, getting stuff ready.
I hope we all can sleep in this heat  

Hi Skylark it was very hot out and quite hot in church (lots of people don't like open windows ) but lovely and cool to come home.  The house stays nice and cool all day until near sunset and then its like an oven on this side   I am looking forward to a nice storm clearing the air.  My brain gets overheated and I have to keep correcting what I type or you would never understand it   I know just what you mean, its the same when the grandsons come over, I just wash the floor and then they go out on the trail bike and come back looking like Stig of the Dump muddy footprints everywhere.

Night night, I hope you can sleep despite the heat, night night to everyone now, hope its cooler in the morning.

Evening all. It has been very muggy up here too, Squiggle.

I've been busy hoovering and tidying bedrooms and ended up feeling very hot and sticky, so I went for a nice long bath and washed my hair - feel a lot cooler now.

Hope all goes well for your son at the physio tomorrow, Skylark.

Leaving a hug for Ros.  Goodnight all.

aww night yogi skylark Squiggle

skylark - hope your son gets on OK at physio

Good morning everyone

It's another hot day, but heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected so it will cool down. It's the south-east and east of England where there is a weather warning for this so Joyronland and Wimbledon could get very wet. The heat doesn't bother me too much as years ago when I had an over-active thyroid, one of the effects that I always felt hot so at present it feels cooler to me now then it did at that time.

Good morning everyone. Light showers are forecast for today, but sunshine is predicted for tomorrow and Wednesday.

Hope everyone is well and Skylark's son gets on well at physio today.

El, do you have to take meds to keep the over-active thyroid under control, or were they able to cure the problem?

Good morning everyone.    Had a really hot day yesterday but today is forecast to be even hotter, with the chance of thunderstorms tonight.

Hope you all had a good weekend.  I've left you a little story in our PM. 

Yogi, I was diagnosed with an over-active thyroid over 15 years ago. I was put on medication for a year to suppress the symptoms. An over active thyroid is more serious than an under active thyroid due to the symptoms including increased blood pressure and increased heart rate. I was taken off the medication after a year to see if the overactivity returned or not. It returned within a few days. Doctors would not be prepared to let patients be on medication for life, so the options were either surgery or a dose of radioactive iodine. The thyroid gland thrives on iodine so the radioactive iodine would be drawn to the thyroid rather than just circulating in the body. You may remember that people who were exposed to radioactive iodine in the Japanese disaster were treated with heavy doses of ordinary iodine so that their thyroids couldn't absorb so much of the radioactive iodine and their bodies just eliminated it.

I chose the radioactive thyroid as by that time I had my own business so didn't want to lose the income caused by not being able to work after surgery. I was given a dosage sufficient to kill off the excess part of the thyroid and had to be in isolation for a couple of weeks for obvious reasons. Patients are always given a bit too much iodine in order to ensure that the procedure does not have to be repeated. The result is that your thyroid becomes underactive and that is treated in the normal way with thyroxine - the thyroid hormone, so provided the dosage is at the correct level and regularly monitored with blood tests there are no side effects.

Thanks for explaining it, El. I'm glad they managed to sort it out for you.

Good morning, Joyron.

Good morning everyone, a nice fresh morning at the moment, with a feeling in the air that its going to get hotter later.  I have every window open downstairs and am getting a lovely breeze coming in.

I found it very interesting to hear about your thyroid EL.  My husband's thyroid was damaged very badly by the radiation he had to undergo and he was on thyroxine for the rest of his life, it had to be gradually increased.  The damage to his saliva glands was worse and it virtually destroyed them thereby killing off his appetite for ever (and incidentally causing him to lose his beautiful teeth)

Thanks for the update Joyron, sounds like a lovely lovely day, so glad for you

squiggle, that was tragic . I've posted that clip for you

Thank you EL, you are a gentleman

Skylark I have started watching Mildred Pierce.  Its very good (in my opinion anyway) and its repeated on Sky Atlantic this Wednesday at 10.10pm

Hello x i am just in and soaked to the skin, it s lashing rain here. 
Son is fine, he is hoping to get back to work soon. Just waiting for GP to phone as he needs to be signed back from her . She is very obliging so hopefully she can see him today  
Will catch up with the thread in a bit x 

That's good news for your son, Skylark

I bet your son is pleased, Skylark. Good news indeed.

Wonderful news Skylark  

Its so humid here now, we had a little sprinkle of rain but we need a lot more to wash all this away.

Hi Squiggle, it's overcast up here but thankfully not as humid as yesterday.

Afternoon everyone.    Glad you enjoyed my little story and didn't find it too boring.  So pleased to hear that your son may soon be able to return to work Skylark.

It has been really hot and humid here all day.  There is a threat of thunderstorms tonight but unfortunately not in our area.  We really do need something to cool things down, although the forecast for tomorrow is a little cooler anyway so hopefully that will be the case.

It's not been too bad inside today as I have kept the windows closed and kept the humid heat out.  As soon as it starts to cool down I will be off around the house to open up all the windows to let, hopefully, some cooler air in.  Will catch up with you all again tomorrow. 

Hi everyone, its a lot cooler here now and the wind is getting up so I suppose some rain will come along.  I don't cope well with the humidity and feel a lot more comfortable now.

I wanted to practice my  video insertion so I found this little clip and will have a go at inserting it here, its quite cute.  Poor little ducklings being blown over by a high wind, they are OK though although mum looks a bit ruffled at the end.

Aww, poor little ducklings and mother duck. I'm glad they were all fine after being blown about.

Glad you enjoyed it squiggle, will try to watch it then x

Awww poor ducklings, they must have wondered what was going on. Mum got them sorted tho !
Thats son sorted for tomorrow, going back to work, just odd jobs etc for another week. its been all go today !  (thanks for all your concerns x)

Poor little ducklings, they must have been scared

Excellent Skylark.

I am so pleased, i love my son to bits, and very proud of him, but he has been driving me nuts! He gets bored so easily.

It must have been so frustrating for him, happening so soon after he started his new job.

He'll be back to his old self when he gets back to work.

i know , poor thing. he will be happy making the tea and getting the banter . 
Just had a quick shower, the weather here is awful, so warm and humid, not a bit air , and its been raining heavily too  

It's quite cool here tonight and no rain. It's supposed to be sunny tomorrow.

I am sure he will be, but its very frustrating for him and for you Skylark, its been a difficult time.

Yes it has squiggle xxx

Nighty night everyone, hope you sleep better (if its cooler) than you did last night

Goodnight all xx  Sleep well x

night yogi skylark and squiggle

so pleased to hear this skylark It will be like a breath of fresh air for him going back to work - A shame it happened when it did