OK, this may sound odd but it's a genuine question! Has anyone with an older dog used doggie nappies or male dog wraps to help with peeing incidents?
Dawn @Dawns Stoke Poges
Stoke Poges
Mum and Nana , working and volunteering in Charity . Total bookworm and music fanatic
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See 109 comments...https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1541197/prince-harry-sues-for-uk-police-protection
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See 58 comments...So, Andrew has been stripped of his titles and honours and now faces trial as a private citizen not a royal. This civil case will be interesting
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See 21 comments...So from next Monday isolation rules will be 5 days. Thoughts?
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See 26 comments...Hi scoop, just wondering if you could confirm something for me. If I send someone a PM forwarding messages to someone, the recipient will get the PM from MY name and not the forwarded messages name . Am I seeing this right?
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See 60 comments...Just had a really interesting conversation about Covid. It seems we have been battling it forever. Looking back at the first Lockdown, it all seemed very weird and extraordinary to be told to stay indoors and work from home! Then the freedom and then other lockdowns came along and here we are, battling yet another variant that is said to spread fastest. Suddenly there are rumblings at work at preparations for having to shut down groups and activities and run things virtually, talk of having to work remotely 100% of the time again and the impact on people. My question is, what do YOU think is next? More rules and restrictions before or after Christmas? another WFH order? how are YOU all feeling? Mine is a mixture of tiredness and sadness at lost loved ones in our family and circle, frustration at people who still do not take it seriously and just plain anxiety about people being safe.
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See 3 comments...Had a respiratory specialist appt today. She told me a very interesting fact. I was explaining that I was suddenly ha ing allergy type symptoms when my daughters dog came to my house. She said they have been finding that people who have had covid suddenly have their allergies change or new allergies suddenly come on! How weird is that! She said they have been reporting it back as nobody has done studies or realised until now
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I grew up with Dad listening to country . Sometimes it hits your heart! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBLruNfUqUs
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See 20 comments...Love it: - Anybody get stressed about Christmas Dinner ? Read this from a Sheffield butchers . I’ve pinched this, but it’s fab!! Patterson’s Butchers Sheffield 😂Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............! 😂 Here's my top tip 🎄Christmas Dinner.... I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs... It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!! The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains. 🍷🍷🍷 🙄We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not! Here goes...💓 1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer £3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!👏🏼 2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a shit load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)😜 What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking 😉. 3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell.... Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto! I ( nor anyone else I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to piss about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy 😠😠😠 4. Vegetables...🍆 Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough! 5. Roast potatoes... Yes I par boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same 😉. 6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl! (oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!) 7. Family.... Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bugger them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace! Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc. And Finally..... NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PISSED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!! Rant over 😂 🎄Merry Christmas!🎄 Cheers 🍷🍷🍷
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See 8 comments...Hi team Is it possible for the notification number on loops to be cleared at the same time when you mark all Notifications as read?
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See 32 comments...Well, it's been an interesting few days. You may remember my brush with covid that wasnt that serious in comparison to others. Well, it gave me a second adventure! I had a cold for 10 days, yesterday became very breathless and spoke to th3 Dr who called an ambulance and sent me to a & e . 5 covid tests later - all negative- an xray showed a right lung that is fully infected . Wouldn't let me out as my blood oxygen crashed everytime they stopped giving me it. 5 nebuliser, 4 antibiotic IVs, a shed load of steroids ,oxygen,paracetamol, ibuprofen,blood thinners later am still here waiting to hear if I can go home. Apparently its a pattern, people who have a mild case of covid recover,then 6 to 8 weeks later become unwell. The joys of this ever giving thing!
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Watched this last night. True story about the aftermath of 911 and how compensation was worked out on a formula based on what each life was worth and families fighting to get people to realise that a cleaner dying in the trade centre was worth as much as a top exec etc. Very moving film
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See 4 comments...Documentary that spans over a decade following the case of novelist Michael Peterson whose wife died on their staircase. Very interesting following the trial and evidence - I still can't make up my mind what the truth is!
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See 22 comments...I have just got off the phone with my step sister. Her 10 year old son went to school yesterday happy and healthy. Last night at 8 pm he started to feel unwell, he has slight asthma. In 10 mins he was struggling to breathe. She bundled him in the car and drove 10 mins to the hospital. 10 minutes after getting there his heart stopped and they had to resuscitate him.they managed to re start his heart. Rushed tests through and he has covid. The hospital are very alarmed as this was showing with complication in blood platelets also. He is now on oxygen fighting it. The speed is disastrous and worrying . The Dr's cannot work out why and how it was so fast. Be vigilant out there and stay safe
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See 4 comments...https://youtu.be/NaUCDqWzy1k
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See 42 comments...I totally love this article and the photos. It reminds me that every older person has a story to tell. https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/reflections-of-the-past-tom-hussey/
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See 101 comments...Good morning Scoop. I just thought I would ask for an update after your post a while back regarding racist remarks etc. It seems things are worse than ever with comments being racist or disruptive and no matter how much people report nothing is done. Are there any plans to tackle it?
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See 20 comments...Once again I am battling to get to sleep tonight. So I thought it would be fun to.list all of the symptoms my Covid visitor has given me so far! 1. Headache - for the first 48 hours I had the migraine sharp pain mixed with the flu foggy dull pain headache from hell. Nothing touched it.one of the worst ones I've had. 2. Severe stomach cramps- second worst one. Felt like a sharp case of food poisoning 3. Aches and pains in joints and back. A lot like flu 4.temp flinging from hot to cold then back again. 5.insomnia -just cannot sleep at all 6. Itchy skin- very annoying 7.everything tastes funny like iron tea 8.weirdest one for me- terrible Vertigo that felt like I was drunk ! Am off to make tea... Will add any others as they come lol
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See 6 comments...Broke my heart to hear a 5 year old was one of the victims. My thoughts with all of the families. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58197414
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See 74 comments...Well I thought I would share my experience ! As some of you know, we had 10 close family members at an outdoor 1st Birthday party on the 4th. We all had lateral tests that were negative on that day. On Friday 6th ,my daughters boyfriend did a lateral test to go to the gym and tested positive.He immediately booked a PCR test as he had a temperature and informed us all. We all did LFT and were all negative but all started to isolate for 10 days. His pCR test came back on the 8th as inconclusive so he had another done. All of us still isolating.Today , his test came back positive. His app told him he had to isolate for 7 days.we all expected a ping. My daughter got pinged and was told isolation for 10 days from today, one other family member got pinged and given 4 days, the rest of us no pings at all.We all have our app on so I don't know why. Conclusion... since Friday, 9 of us could have been out spreading covid merrily amongst the public for 5 days, and 7 of us still aren't legally obliged to isolate as no ping(even though we all are)
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See 37 comments...This broke my heart.the poor lady refused further treatment after watching her husband die.shw diedn12 hours later. Both double vaccinated. So so sad https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/obituaries/2436220/john-and-may-cropley-covid-took-pastor-john-and-12-hours-later-may-went-with-him/amp/
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See 14 comments...yet another story - when will people listen? https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/09/father-mother-and-son-all-die-within-a-week-after-refusing-vaccine-15060319/
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See 16 comments...This very Handsome Sheepshead fish was caught in North Caroliner, what a friendly smile! Wonder what his name is....
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See 35 comments...Is anyone else struggling to get some sort of balance between getting on with life and being Covid safe? We had a very small close family get together yesterday for my grandsons birthday. 10 close family members, all of us don't go to any busy places, we all did LF tests that morning before meeting AND we had it outside in the garden and constantly wiped bathroom and door handles down etc. It was still very weird for me and I caught myself still being ultra observant. Is it just me? Are you all relaxed about things now or also wary of things?
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See 98 comments...Hi Scoop, I just wondered how Loops are doing at the moment with members participating? The few groups I am in are very quiet with few people taking part at all . I myself have been quiet on them myself as every thread seems to break down into point scoring or personal attacks and I cannot be bothered with the same arguments. I notice a lot of regulars in them have been silent and I wondered if they felt this way or simply weren't interested in the conversation topics? Is there anything that can be done to bring all of the lovely members whom I always enjoy reading back to posting? Or is it simply time to find ( or create) a new Loop?
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See 25 comments...This really made me sad. Those poor children treated like they were worthless. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57984924
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See 71 comments...So Prince Harry is writing his Memoirs. Lovely. I am sure it will be a fair,unbiased account of life leaving the royal family. Who will be buying ?
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See 28 comments...Just read the ICO raided two properties and took away devices in their investigation into Hancocks whistle-blower. Some are saying this is a strike against free speech and that the public had the right to know about the affair. What do you think?
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See 23 comments...I just had a conversation with my soon to be son in law. His sister and partner battled Covid last Xmas and were very unwell. Two weeks ago they went to a birthday celebration. It was a BBQ of 20 people. A few days after they had a phone call to say some of the guests had gone down with Covid. They got tested and once again had it, as do most of the 20 . How? Because one of the couples had tested positive before the BBQ and kept quiet about it to attend! Not only have they infected everyone but one family had to cancel their holiday with their kids as they are having to quarantine. Utter selfishness
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See 16 comments...Hi scoopy, I know we can Mark notifications as read etc but could we clear them all from the list totally?
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See 1 comment...Hi Scoopy I noticed the sub threads are rolled up - great improvement. My question is - will you be able to 'unroll' each sub thread separately in the future? As when you click previous replies it seems to unroll all of them?
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See 8 comments...https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-150-hospital-workers-lose-their-jobs-after-refusing-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-in-houston-12339593
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See 64 comments...Good evening Scoopy I love your blocking option. I would like to suggest you go a step further if possible. Would it be possible to stop the "a post from a person you have blocked " thing on threads? And maybe stop us seeing any subthreads when the blocked person is tagged in a post? Would make this blocking thing perfect then by nicely making people disappear 😁
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See 4 comments...Can I just say Happy Fathers Day to all of the Dads on here! May you be blessed with food and drink and love today!! ❤❤
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See 14 comments...This made me very sad reading it.49 year old Jason decide he couldn't live anymore with his condition after another setback. This brings home to me the fact we are still going to be losing people and that long covid is a problem that won't go away.Thoughts and prayers with his family xx https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uks-longest-known-coronavirus-patient-jason-kelk-dies-after-withdrawing-from-treatment-12336139
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See 3 comments...Well the news are reporting what they think will happen, I am looking forward to Boris statement for a number of reasons. The main one is that I am trying to support my staff in planning the re opening of their face to face services. Timelines were made presuming that 21st June would be the easing of restrictions, but of course we have to figure in contingency plans. I feel for all the other organisations and sectors who have been planning on resuming services but now face uncertain times. It must be difficult to keep their staff happy. Good luck to all !
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See 59 comments...Not seen much in the news about this today. Thoughts are with the families who lost xx
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See 39 comments...Hi Scoop, I have a question. We all know that you have changed policy regarding sharing screenshots in the groups of abusive messages. Could you clarify if it is ok to share a screenshot in a PM?
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See 44 comments...My council has just announced that from Wednesday they will be doing surge testing in my postcode as the delta variant is rife. How is everyone feeling about the latest cases? And the news that’s saying Boris will postpone the unlocking? Right, wrong or just fed up with the whole thing?
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See 2 comments...https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-57425534
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See 2 comments...Well, I was going to write a letter today to a prisoner and rang the prison to confirm their prison number. The lady said “Oh, you don’t need to write a letter, we now have the email a prisoner app” !! For 40p per message I can email a message that is printed off and gets to the prisoner the next day!! Amazing! I can remember back in the day when you had to wait like two weeks for a reply to a letter and now bam! 🙄
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