Night Howls
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3.03am, woken by a combination of a bad dream about (mostly) deceased family members, a nuclear grade hot flush with a lot of sweat, and because it was warm yesterday so my window is open, some fruit bats that have decided to stay in the ghost gum in our back garden. Noisy visitors. Hope they don't stay long. They keep flying past my window, must be hunting.
I dislike getting into bed all clean and fresh and then getting out of it dishevelled and stinky. Life is all turned about now.
Time for some sleep sounds.0 -
I hope you got some sleep in the end, @kmakm. I loved bats until I stayed at Mataranka and the place was overrun with them...the smell... Actually, one of our neighbours (we only have a few) is the Batman of SA. He's retired, sort of, now due to funding issues, I think, but he's the authority on all things bat. Currently doing batty things in New Guinea, I believe.0
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Why oh why do I try not to fall asleep on the couch at 9:30pm, go to bed at 10:30pm, only to be wide awake at 2am?..then spend the rest of the day feeling tired.0
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I find I fall asleep over Netflix and about 8.30 for about 10 minutes and then I’m wide awake again. My hot flushes have definitely been getting worse. I feel u @kmakm hate doing to bed fresh and then feeling like a wet, stinky puddle.
@Sister the doctors surgery that I normally go to is bulk billed. Most of the doctors are useless and not really interested and as soon as I find a good one they move on.0 -
@sister I had a sore pinky months before BC. Doctors couldn't help or diagnose. Xray all clear but it felt broken. Osteo didn't know what it was but he got the fluids all moving in my arm and the pain went. It still comes back now and then, osteo still doesn't know what it is but he still fixes it.0
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@Sister The fruit bats are probably out there eating my roses!
Have you ever given yourself permission to stay on the couch, with a blanket on hand, to see what happens? It's inevitable that if my eyelids are drooping in the living room, 15 minutes later in bed I'll be wide awake...
No, difficult night's sleep, more than usual. Lovely big rainstorm going on now so I might try for another hour of snooze. Gotta love a public holiday for a horse race!0 -
@Sister @Kiwi Angel Forgive me if I'm repeating myself but I now drive 30 - 40 minutes for my GP. It took me 18 years to find a good one. I prefer a female GP and the previous two decent ones both got pregnant and left. I switched surgeries in order to get in quickly when the kids are ill. Massive bulk bill place, where the service wasn't always top notch but you could always get an appointment. An emergency took me back to the local surgery, a five minute walk from my house. That's when I found my GP, quite by chance. It was with her I was doing all my health checks when the cancer was found. When she told me she was leaving for a practice in a country town I was in the middle of chemo. I cried! There's no way I was starting another 18 year GP search at that point so I elected to follow her. Worth every minute of the dive and every dollar of petrol. She goes above and beyond for me. Superb. I hope you find a good one S & G. K xox1
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Well done, @kmakm - following your GP! Sadly, mine moved to Melbourne when I finished rads - I was SO upset when she told me, I cried too. It was she who picked up my lump, when even the surgeon couldn't feel it! After my surgery, I bumped into her in Aldi & she chatted with me for 30 mins! She was just lovely & so caring as well. I've now gone with a younger woman GP who is a 'co-owner' of the practise, so she is unlikely to move away, even if she does get pregnant. We have mutual sporting friends too .... not sure if that is a good thing!!
I've played around with Melatonin again this week. Both Keith & I are taking it and so far, we've both had a good week's sleep. I'd tried it years ago & it did nothing for me! So, I'll have a break now & see how it goes, in case I grow used to it & it loses it's effect!0 -
I've led a sheltered life. My son says this was on TV when he was a kid. How come I have never watched All Saints? The series is available right back to series one. It will keep me entertained night and day for weeks! https://7plus.com.au/all-saints
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@Finche - too good an opportunity not to put a $ on it!! We did a sweep at our ukulele gig yesterday & watched the race with the residents of the nursing home - champagne in hand! ..... and I came 3rd, so at least got my $10 back! That was a 'win' to me!
I've never watched All Saints @Brenda5! I think I was living in NZ when it was on - back in the 80s & 90s!
@kmakm @Sister We have THOUSANDS of fruit bats roosting not far from here & they can be a real pain. Not only noisey & smelly (particularly after rain re-wets their roosting area) - but they shit all over our back deck & anything left on the clothes line
I almost made up a Spud Gun (DIY on Youtube, using plastic pipes, piezo BBQ ignition button & hairspray!) It shoots a potato at them to scare them off ..... and the potato then just breaks down in the forest! A great idea, I thought. A few years ago there was an explosion in the population & EVERYONE was complaining about them! There is an area at Wingham where people go to watch & study them! I drive past them 4 times a day!
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Ain't this the truth .... and then BC on top! YAAAAY! (NOT!)
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Go the spud gun @arpie ! I've been waging guerilla war against the neighborhood cats with a super-soaker full of white vinegar for years. Every once in a while one decides it will do a nightly spray on my windscreen (WTF is that about) so I charge my soaker, set up at an open window and wait for the bastard. Granny Clampett eat your heart out. They loath vinegar--it takes the rest of the evening to lick it off themselves.
Spud gunning bats probably won't work, but you won't know for sure until you get your eye in
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