Oh this gave me a nice nostalgia hit! Back in the late 60s I think it was, there was a similar scheme where you sent a dollar to the address at the top of a list of ten names, added your name to the bottom of the list and sent the list to ten other people. There were various other chain letter things going around, threatening a curse if you didn't pass them on, but this was a specific cash one. I had quite an argument with the idiot who sent it to me - he said the chain wouldn't work if I broke it. You were supposed to end up with hundreds of dollars.
Two things helped me: learning not to listen to the "noise" (it's not truly noise, it's a kind of nerve damage), and hearing aids. When I first put the aids in the tinnitus vanished. The downside is that all the work I'd put in to not listening was overturned, because I "heard" the sounds again when I took the aids out. Still nice to have that respite though.
Training yourself to not listen to the racket isn't easy, but it is so worthwhile. Turn your attention away to something else - a smell, a photograph, your pet, anything. Focus away. Just thinking about tinnitus is making it "audible" to me, lol! It's not real sounds, it's your poor abused nerve endings firing off random signals. White noise works for a lot of people, but it never has for me.
Visit https://tinnitus.org/ for more info. There's a download section where you can get a pdf of a scientific paper describing the method.
Young dandelion greens are delicious. You can also roast the roots to make “coffee”, but I can’t really recommend it. It’s like coffee in that it’s dark and bitter, but it has zero caffeine (which is why I used to drink it) and… well, it tastes horrible. Young nettle leaves are also good as cooked greens or tea, wear gloves to pick and process them of course.
My favourite is the Royal Bank fiver with mackerel on one side and Nan Shepherd on the other. Apparently there are clouds of midges that only show under UV light, but I've never had a UV light and and an RBS fiver at the same time to check.
That's how I get WhatsApp on a desktop browser, have done for years. Sometimes I'm sending a photo that's only on the hard drive. Also it's easier to type.
I like having house spiders, they are quiet and clean, and their webs are fairly discreet. My main interaction with them is helping them out of the bath before I have a shower. I offer a flannel, spider climbs aboard, I lift the flannel to the windowsill, spider exits. Another place I appreciate spiders is inside my beehives - they help keep wax moths at bay.
I was adopted by a stray kitten and had her spayed when she was old enough. A friend told me I had taken away her “choice” to reproduce. I asked her how many of my cat’s hypothetical offspring she was willing to adopt - there would be I guess an annual litter of four or more to choose from. Yeah no.
In the end I moved countries and gave the cat away. I would never have another one, nice as she was. There’s a family of voles living in my garden, half a dozen frogs in the pond and lots of birds visit my trees. I support them mainly by leaving them to go about their business.
Thanks! That sounds doable. I would have to do the pole/post thing, shouldn't be a problem. I live near to a sail maker, so I could even maybe get an old sail, or splash out on a bespoke one.
I honestly think I'm immune or something. I pretty much followed all the lockdown rules, though I didn't go disinfecting my groceries like some people I know. After things loosened up I went on a day trip with a group of friends, and we all had dinner & drinks together afterwards. One woman unknowing had COVID, and over the next few days everyone else came down with it. Except me. Last Christmas I spent with close friends, lots of kissing and hugging - COVID for them but not me. I still get all my shots (five so far), I'm scared of long COVID more than anything. I'm too busy to be long-term sick.
Edit just to add that I tested negative every day for a week after those exposures.
Mate, I have tried every which in the three years I've owned the iPad. It will not allow the cursor to be placed anywhere but the end or the start of a word. As an annoyance it's up there with the exclamation and question marks not being grouped with the rest of the punctuation.
Oh this gave me a nice nostalgia hit! Back in the late 60s I think it was, there was a similar scheme where you sent a dollar to the address at the top of a list of ten names, added your name to the bottom of the list and sent the list to ten other people. There were various other chain letter things going around, threatening a curse if you didn't pass them on, but this was a specific cash one. I had quite an argument with the idiot who sent it to me - he said the chain wouldn't work if I broke it. You were supposed to end up with hundreds of dollars.