Awake and up all night

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“Getting a cancer diagnosis is extremely stressful, and that brings a whole load of emotions, and lack of sleep certainly does not help. I think many of us have periods of insomnia. I experienced a long period of not sleeping. I could go off to sleep quite quickly, but after an hour I would find myself wide awake again, and would spend the rest of the night getting frustrated because I couldn't sleep."
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Soc 4 months ago in reply to RayMK

tesco will stock them or any chemist. i put them in 4 times a day 2 drops.

RayMK 4 months ago in reply to Gill H

Lol. That's what Tesco staff do when they see me near the biscuits or the scones (on a shelf at floor height which I can't easily reach). They've stopped selling Belgian almond fingers as well. It's a conspiracy. xxx

Soc 4 months ago in reply to RayMK

do you know tesco have gone shocking. they are out of stock on my strawberry muller corners. the cheek of it.

Gill H 4 months ago in reply to RayMK

Ray, I'm convinced supermarkets conspire against folk who need to use sticks.

Since OH partnered up with Walter we've noticed things like the high percentage dark chocolate are all on the top shelves, and the items are trapped behind plastic barriers that are supposed to slide from side to side. They don't, and OH struggles to get at them. It's a different challenge for me as I'm a short arse. I don't think they must want us to fork out for expensive bars of luxury choc.

Anyway, drum roll...Ta da! It's TLC time again so toodle pip folks till later. Hugs all round xxx

RayMK 4 months ago in reply to Soc

That is disgraceful! While I can grudgingly accept that one old bloke buying Garibaldi every fortnight may not be good business, you and Ukiboy must surely require a lorry load of Muller Corners every week. No excuse Tesco!! xxx

Soc 4 months ago in reply to RayMK

thank you ray. i have been shopping at tesco for 60 years and buy 32 muller corners every week. they are making a mint out of us and by the way i love garibaldi biscuits.xxx

RayMK 4 months ago in reply to Soc

Do you remember the first Tescos? They often had bare wooden floorboards and some were quite scruffy. My parents preferred the Finefare supermarket which opened in Beaconsfield when we were based at RAF Naphill. 1962, I think. Mum gradually became a Mrs Bucket, only happy to shop in M&S or Waitrose. xxx

Soc 4 months ago in reply to RayMK

where i lived ray in middleton we were the first in the country to have an arndale and there was a tesco in the arndale i remember the bare floorboards. my mum shopped where it was cheap with 7 of us kids.

Deb11 4 months ago in reply to excavator

Oh wow, yes indeed Westcliff was indeed posh but not as upmarket as Thorpe Bay I had a friend that lived in a new housing development in Shoeburyness who said she lived on the Thorpe Bay borders …. God that made me laugh. I was an Eastwood, Leigh on Sea girl, now firmly ensconced in West Wales and wouldn’t live anywhere else

Gill H 4 months ago in reply to Deb11

I'm sure you'd love a swap with us Debs, especially after what I revealed this afternoon.

No, I thought not...

Hugs sweetie xxx