Well, if I was sore yesterday, today is 20 times as bad. In fact, so bad in my left hip that even after taking Ibuprofen, bending to put wallpaper below the dado rail made me squawk with pain, as did coming downstairs - in fact, I have been up and down stairs perhaps 25 or 30 times today. You know the way it goes - leaving scissors/ruler/wallpaper in the wrong room, with a stair case in between!
You may like it or hate it as you wish. Tam and I like it anyway. In an ideal world, the Verdigris green would have been a little lighter, but I think the wallpaper tones it down a bit. I ordered new curtains from Dunelm this week, cream voile curtains with a pretty macrame border and they will neutralize the green. They should arrive on Thursday and Tam is bringing a white wooden curtain pole to put up for me. I shouldn't have gone looking for new bedding as I have found the exact match for the wallpaper - ONLY £115 the set! So that won't be happening!
Well, I have done all the way along the wall behind the bed, bar a tiny bit beneath the wall cupboard where the waterworks enter the room for the tiny sink. I have to do trimming tomorrow.
I am awarding myself the rest of the afternoon off and am very glad that I did my walk first thing, visited the Library, plus two loads of washing hung out to dry, and tea is going to be something from the freezer. I may sow some seeds - at least I can do that standing up.
Pippi is being a little ratbag and keeps bringing back Slow Worm after Slow Worm. I thought they were dead, as they were stiff and not moving, but I have noted where I put them and they have been gone. In fact, the baby I've just put out began to move the minute I lifted a tuft of grass for it to slide safely into.
Right, I have seeds to plant (many packets!) so will get out in the sunshine.
Udate: sowed some more Runner Beans, a tub of Pot Marigolds, cleared most of the brambles and dried stems from the corner by the stable, repotted two Strawberries, Gorilla-glued some broken terracotta pieces back onto the pot which shed them this winter, and read a bit of my book in the sunshine : Carol Cole - Murder in the New Forest. Being upright has helped my aches.
I do feel for you, my hands are aching like crazy after carrying, then raking gravel. I find Anadin Extra helps quite a lot. Have you thought about plain white bedding, they had some nice sets in B&M with a ruffled set or a textured set. Love the wallpaper though and I wouldn't pay £115, I'd expect to get several bedding sets for that! Xx
ReplyDeleteI love the colour scheme and wallpaper. Is it paste on wallpaper or the peel and stick kind. I have nightmares about trying to use the peel and stick, I thin it would be very difficult to adjust. You seem to have the knack for wallpapering so perhaps you could give me some tips. So envious of your Spain trip. Where in Spain? Visiting the Alhambra is at the top of my bucket list. We bought the cottage!! You good vibes must have done the trick!
ReplyDeleteHOORAY!! I'm so pleased it was the right cottage, and your gut feeling was correct. I am using paste and am pasting the wall and then positioning the paper. Not sure where the house is. Will check with Tam.
DeleteLast night it was my left shoulder, but my hips have really been complaining if I am stooping or on my knees for a couple of hours (can't say I blame them). Plain white was an option but the girls WILL go in there to sleep and white not most practical. Plain navy is probably better. Don't have Anadin in the drawer but may get some to try.
ReplyDeleteOh you poor thing! You do insist on doing way too much. Extreme pain has over the past couple years made me slow down, waking up and facing a day of pain is so depressing, I think.
ReplyDeleteI love the apple green walls and black ground wallpaper. So creative and charming. Could we see a more wide angle view of the entire room?
I had to look up Slow Worm--snakes don't bother me but I find the SW kind of ick. [yes I saw it is a salamander or lizard] Poor things, they belong outside.
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lizzy
I've not finished the room but will give a wider screen pic when it's done.
DeleteI am used to slow worms as we had them in our garden when I was a kid. They are legless lizards really.
Glad you like the decor. The paper is actually a very dark blue.
I like colour. I can't stand boring beige/taupe/'whatever name they are calling it this year' interiors. I think your room will look fantastic when it all comes together.
ReplyDeleteTry taking a painkiller with coffee, rather than water or tea. The caffeine makes it kick in quicker.
Me neither - and when it comes to grey, that is not my sort of colour at all.
DeleteWill take any other painkillers with caffeine but I don't like coffee so it will be a Diet Coke!
You are so brave with your decorating choices, I love it especially the wallpaper. Sorry to hear your hips are giving you gip. At yoga on Monday many of us were feeling the pain of too much gardening and our teacher showed us how to apply pressure to the painful points. First find your hip bones (easier for some than others!) and with your thumbs press down under the bone and work back towards your buttocks pressing as hard and deeply as you can. Self massage is very underrated I think and if you have some CBD balm to hand it’s even more effective. My CBD balm is mixed with peppermint oil and is soothing and cooling. Doing this in yoga on Monday reminded me of when I tore the subscapularis muscle after a nasty fall off my bike coming down the 3 in 1 killer hill. Eventually after putting up with six months of excruciating immobilising pain I went to a physio and she got her hands right underneath the shoulder blade to massage the muscle and tendons. It was extraordinary and almost immediately the pain dissipated. I need to prick out my tomato and chilli seeds soon and I have a second tray of broad beans that need to go into the ground, but it’s so dry and cold at night I’m going to hang on for a bit longer. I wait until May to sow French beans, squashes, courgette. and sweetcorn and they are ready to go out first week in June and they romp away, Asparagus for supper tonight - just four spears each but so delicious. Oh dear, poor slow worms. I have baby slow worms in my compost heap and at the birdy place last week we saw grass snakes mating. One big fat female entwined and writhing with two much smaller males. We live a stone’s throw from the Serpent’s Way, a long distance path that snakes its way between Haslemere and Petersfield and where all our native reptiles including adders are regularly spotted. Had a lovely walk through the bluebell woods this afternoon listening to the birdsong and putting my cares to one side. S is now struggling all day every day and today in desperation I called the Parkinson’s UK adviser for my area and she is arranging for one of the Parkinson’s UK nurses to call and also gave me a recommendation for a neurologist who practises privately in Hove so not too far away. I hold the NHS in high esteem but sadly nowadays in some areas it is no longer fit for purpose. Look after yourself BB especially as it’s a special day for you tomorrow. Have a wonderful day, I’ll be thinking of you and my daughter, your Aries twin. Sarah x
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about CBD oils but would welcome any suggestions as to what to buy please. Currently I have an arm/shoulder/rotator cuff injury (it's getting better every day thanks to exercises) but would like to massage my arm - which keeps me awake at night when I turn over! Thank you. (anon in Wiltshire)
DeleteI bought mine from a local independent health shop. “CBD Muscle and Joint Cream with 500mg CBD (hemp based cannabinol) per 50ml bottle and made in the USA” is the one I’m currently using. Your torn rotator cuff will get better with exercise. It takes time but eventually the body heals. I would recommend a good hands-on physio. NHS physios no longer touch their patients so ask around for a private recommendation. Massage and exercise stimulates blood flow which speeds up healing. My advice to anyone is to keep moving and find an activity you enjoy. I do lots of different exercise. I practise yoga most days, I swim for an hour at least once a week, I cycle or walk most days and look after an acre of garden and have recently started rowing around Chichester harbour in a gig which is a good test of my ancient shoulder injuries. I also had a torn rotator cuff about 20 years ago (a sudden injury) and when my shoulder was scanned for the subscapularis tear in 2016 it had completely healed. Rotator cuffs are like toblerone triangles that surround a saucer into which the shoulder joint fits and this clever anatomical design gives, ideally, 360 degree movement. I think the human body is amazing, good luck with yours Anon. Sarah
DeleteThanks very much for the info. I agree with you - keep moving! I go to gym/pilates classes 4/5 times a week and a firm believer that if you don't move it will be more difficult to recuperate if you do injure yourself. I also have a good private physio and oesteo. Money very well spent I think!
DeleteI love the way we can all help each other out "behind the scenes" here . Thanks for the CBD oil info for anon in Wilts.
DeleteI have been overdoing things in the garden (forgetting my age I guess!) I need to get back to Yoga instead of being not so active all winter and then going Nutso outside!
I am SO sorry to hear that S is struggling so. It is a wicked disease with no respite. I hope that the local neurologist in Hove is able to offer help and advice. Holding you in my thoughts.
The slow worms actually survived, as I found that they "play dead" and were doing that when I took them outside. The last one, a real baby, started moving the moment I put it undre the tufts of grass.
The green picks out the green of the leaves very nicely.
ReplyDeleteNow who is being too busy!! There is a lot to do...but if you do too much you'll end up having to take an enforced break and less will be done!!
I've not done quite so much in the garden - even 4 hrs seems to wreck me these days! Longer walks though.
DeleteI've heard of slow worms but never before looked for a picture and description. They are enough 'snake like' that I wouldn't care to have one brought in the house and would likely jump sky high if I encountered one outdoors. [figuratively speaking as my days of 'jumping' are past!]
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't sound as though you took the afternoon off!
I like your decorating choices, although very different from mine. I think the moderate use of the green paint is pleasing although I recall the photo you posted which had everything in a room in that verdigris color--a bit over the top.
We had a cat years ago who sometimes brought in a garter snake--the snakes could play dead long enough for the cat to lose interest then they came alive again. Not welcome visitors!
No, I'm not very good at resting . . . I don't mind the slow worms, having grown up with them in the garden.
DeleteI know my colour palette is totally different to yours. The verdigris should be toned down quite a bit with the cream curtains, navy bedding, and some paintings on the walls to cover it.
I dread the day when Pippi brings in a Grass Snake, though they are harmless. It's the Adder which is our one poisonous snake.
My hips are hurting after being up and down the ladder cleaning areas of the kitchen. Same thing tomorrow with the scrubbing of the cupboards, countertops, and the hands/knees scrubbing of the kitchen floor. Spring cleaning has started and I will be one big ache by the end of next week. I do hope your hip is feeling much better very soon.
ReplyDeleteI love the wallpaper.
God bless.
Hips have eased now but I have to be careful not to overdo it. I need to drink lots more water and do some walks on the flat as the hills round here are a challenge.
DeleteSpring cleaning not happening here yet! Too busy outside.
I love that wallpaper. It is interesting. I would have never thought to put the wallpaper on the bottom. The 'custom' here is to put the painted wall beneath and the wallpaper above, the idea being to avoid furniture damaging the wall. However, this looks super! And your update made me laugh. So much for giving yourself the rest of the day off.
ReplyDeleteAll the upstairs walls were tongue and groove, but then last folk put boarding over the bottom and painted it. I have covered with wallpaper.
DeleteYou are obviously working too hard but the wallpaper looks lovely. The only time I met a slow worm was in Kent and then it was only its dead outer skin, shucked off in one whole piece.
ReplyDeleteIt's difficult to rest for long when the weather is so good (about to get some much-needed rain so I will be outside again tomorrow.) Slow worms are fascinating creatures and I feel lucky to have them here.
DeleteLove the green! Could you buy just the pillow cases in the fabric and chop them up to make cushion covers? I've done this before and bought plain bed linen as a contrast. I am trying to be restrained and only sew a few seeds at a time, but as I am like a kid in a sweetshop with seeds, we may be eating a LOT of runner beans. Best wishes, Lisa.
ReplyDeleteI looked at that idea but the pillowcases were £30 a pair! Expensive cushions. Instead I have bought some very pretty green fabric (printed) with rose-pink flowers on which ties in with the walls and the pink buddleia on the wallpaper. I am going to use that as fronts on pillowcases. In my spare time of course!
DeleteI keep missing your posts until the next day so I hope you are not so sore today.
ReplyDeleteLove the wallpaper and paint colour.
I have toned things down a bit and been sowing seeds and not doing so much stooping or kneeling, and a good rest with a mid afternoon cuppa, sat in the sun with a good book.
DeleteThe paper and green panelling look brilliant together, it's a big fat YES from me. It looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteThought you'd like it as you are a green person. (So to speak!)
DeleteI love the new decorating. Well done.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it too.
DeleteReally love the wallpaper AND the green. Maybe take a look into the site of Heckettlane. They have a bedding set that you might like. Its called Florian. When I look (from NL) it is on sale.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. Lovely things over there, but there would be import tax etc to pay and I wasn't sure the green in that pattern would tie in with the wall.
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