Public seating in Hyndburn

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

I sit there enjoying my post lunch ciggy, when I've been to the Church Street chippy.

Remembering to dipose of it carefully in the bin.

There's nout like fish and chips in newspaper (not possible today) sat on the forms on Church Street, on a Sunny Summers day, the scenery can be quite pleasing too

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Last winter I hardly went out due to bronchitis and (what I thought was) pleurisy, but wasn't (explained in my blog). I avoid SAD - I have a daylight lamp and take extra vitamin D to compensate for lack of natural daylight

This winter my hibernation began early Autumn due to chronic fatigue which I am in the process of curing with nutritional therapy.

I the summer I went on the coast bus driven by darwendosser several times, because I could stay on the bus when it was parked up and sleep on the seats when I needed to.

It is the overwhelming need to sleep at the most inappropriate times which reduces confidence to survive away from home for more than an hour at a time.

It isn't agrophobia - I have been out when I absolutely had to -beg, for trips to chiropodist and hospital outpatients appointments, and I do nip out in my slippers to buy eggs from the allottment next door.

Now this need to sleep has been largely replaced by a need to lie down - so I know I am on the mend. My body clock is still erratic. Last night I was awake all night until 5am and sunday I slept most of the day - but when all added up totals a normal 8hrs and not the 11hrs it used to be.

This life pattern does not fit well with a social life. Arrangements to meet friends and visit places can't be planned ahead.

I have all my physical needs met by deliveries (dont 'shop')
Any sense of isolation has been lessened by Accy Web, and I have managed to go to some meets.

I know that this lifestyle is not natural so I plan to end it (meaning 'be normal'), as soon as the weather warms up a bit, but after so long like this I need 'rehab'

It must be very frustrating when your sleep patterns are all over the place Margaret, as a rule I sleep quite well on the whole, did have a dodgy spell last year when I came out of hospital, where I was falling asleep about 8pm then waking up about 1am and unable to sleep for the rest of the night, but I'm more or less back to normal now. I certainly agree with you about Accy Web, when your unable to get out a lot its like a life line really, just keeping in touch with the outside world, especially during the week, helps to break up the manotany

[Neil]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Is is Ok to feed your ducks with homemade brioche crusts?

No it is not ok to feed ducks bread Tetrapod Zoology : STOP 'feeding' the ducks

When wild ducks are fed human food (especially bread or crackers) their organs become engorged and fatty, which can cause them to suffer from heart disease, liver problems and other health complications. Bread also has very few nutrients, and can get compacted in a bird's crop. Many rehabilitators see "bread-impacted crop" in sick and distressed park ducks.

Waterfowl at artificial feeding sites are often found to suffer from poor nutrition. In a natural setting they will seek out a variety of nutritious foods such as aquatic plants, natural grains, and invertebrates. Bread is very low in protein, contains additives that wildfowl aren't built to cope with, and it's a very poor substitute for natural foods. Ducklings fed bread miss out in vital nutrients during their critical first few weeks, causing splay leg, angel wing, slipped tendons and other growing defects.

[emamum]

Originally Posted by Neil

No it is not ok to feed ducks bread Tetrapod Zoology : STOP 'feeding' the ducks

this made me laugh..

Any suggestions for what people might throw instead of bread?
Over-ready lasagnes.

we feed the ducks down at the lodge only when we have white bread tho cos ducks dont like brown

[Neil]

Originally Posted by emamum

we are killing the ducks down at the lodge only when we have white bread tho cos ducks dont like brown

I corrected your post for you

[MargaretR]

I will comply with the expert advice, but I wish to point out that my home made brioche bread is not 'low protein' - there are 2 free range eggs in every loaf

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

there are 2 free range eggs in every loaf

I hope they're not free range duck eggs.

We could end up with Mad Duck's Disease.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

I hope they're not free range duck eggs.

We could end up with Mad Duck's Disease.

Even with eggs we could end up with that nasty thing portrayed by Ms Fitzgerald and Mr. Davis Jr. Sam an Ella

[Eric]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

Last winter I hardly went out due to bronchitis and (what I thought was) pleurisy, but wasn't (explained in my blog). I avoid SAD - I have a daylight lamp and take extra vitamin D to compensate for lack of natural daylight

This winter my hibernation began early Autumn due to chronic fatigue which I am in the process of curing with nutritional therapy.

I the summer I went on the coast bus driven by darwendosser several times, because I could stay on the bus when it was parked up and sleep on the seats when I needed to.

It is the overwhelming need to sleep at the most inappropriate times which reduces confidence to survive away from home for more than an hour at a time.

It isn't agrophobia - I have been out when I absolutely had to -eg, for trips to chiropodist and hospital outpatients appointments, and I do nip out in my slippers to buy eggs from the allottment next door.

Now this need to sleep has been largely replaced by a need to lie down - so I know I am on the mend. My body clock is still erratic. Last night I was awake all night until 5am and sunday I slept most of the day - but when all added up totals a normal 8hrs and not the 11hrs it used to be.

This life pattern does not fit well with a social life. Arrangements to meet friends and visit places can't be planned ahead.

I have all my physical needs met by deliveries (dont 'shop')
Any sense of isolation has been lessened by Accy Web, and I have managed to go to some meets.

I know that this lifestyle is not natural so I plan to end it (meaning 'be normal'), as soon as the weather warms up a bit, but after so long like this I need 'rehab'

Sounds a lot like Cabin Fever .... (I'm not being flippant for once, so bear with me) ... but I have to do some research on the condition, because it has passed into general use as a term for the winter blahs thereby losing its original meaning .... I do remember reading a serious article on it in a very obscure western Canadian publication called "Farm, Light, and Power" which dealt with mainly rural and farming issues in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. But I do know that the condition was noted by pioneers and homesteaders in the Canadian west, and that the term comes into use around the end of the First World War.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by ClarePritchard

I'm obviously not going to comment on Chavs in Accrington !!!!!!!! Have you considered coming to have a look at the recently done Garden of Hope down at the very bottom of Livingstone Road (past the Accrington Stanley ground), its really pleasant and there is a bench and always lots of gardeners walking past to the allotments. A really pleasant place to sit for a while

A bench!

Wow.

I might have to pencil in a visit, and have a little sit on it.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

A bench!

Wow.

I might have to pencil in a visit, and have a little sit on it.

A benchwhats one of them

[MargaretR]

I started this thread almost 3 years ago.
I never 'emerged', other than short strolls near my home, which fortunately is on the edge of civilisation.

I am well acclimatised to seclusion and have grown to enjoy it.

I do not respond to people who say 'get a life'.
I have had a very eventful one and now enjoy peace and quiet and my own company.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I started this thread almost 3 years ago.
I never 'emerged', other than short strolls near my home, which fortunately is on the edge of civilisation.

I am well acclimatised to seclusion and have grown to enjoy it.

I do not respond to people who say 'get a life'.
I have had a very eventful one and now enjoy peace and quiet and my own company.

Good for you Margaret. As I get older I incline more to your way of thinking. If I won the lottery I would buy myself an island. I don't feel the need any more to be constantly out in the world and its hustle and bustle. I have a partner and that is enough. We have a four storey house - he has a workshop and study in the basement, I have two playrooms on the top floor. We meet in the middle for eating and sleeping. Behind the house is a cemetery where I can always see people walking their dogs and the sea and promenade is a few hundred yards away. I don't need much more than a few books and I'm happy.

One point though - computers and the internet have made a solitary lifestyle easier by internet shopping etc and being able to access tv and news non stop. A true hermit lifestyle might be quite different.

[jedimaster]

plenty of benches at the bottom of broadway and inside market hall

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jedimaster

plenty of benches at the bottom of broadway and inside market hall

'Plenty' being a relative term.

There's one tenth the places to sit on Broadway now, compared to the benches there were around the old flower beds.

Those, unlike the few benches there today, were of better design, and didn't have puddles of water on them, six hours after it last rained.