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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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Hi Gail and welcome to the group. A beautiful set of people on here. I know I'm not supposed to let out this secret, but I think Gill is a vampire and is up and about most nights for a chat. Just for your own safety I would have a few cloves of garlic near you when you're chatting to her.
Hmm posts out of order err not unacceptable , I mean order in which they were submitted
Pal and I try to use just our ourselves. The answers are in back of book so if we finally cave, that is when we check and shout no! and pounce online to feel justified that it was a naff or misleading clue. Answers in the wrong tense are a particular bugbear!
Kor your research expeditions sound fun! Pal has no clue, pardon the pun, on cryptic crosswords. I have an occasional stab at the free newspaper one and am thrilled if I get 3 answers.
With the free paper, I get 2 copies and me and pal compete to finish the different types of puzzle on the page first.
Cheers
Your own bread? Well now we just need a cheese maker and we have a feast!
Ooh do you do herby ones? What's your favourite?
Cheers
That's sounds a great game and the thrill of the chase adds spice.
The crozzys we used to do were sort of difficult but the cash prizes were meaty. This was 20 years ago and the most advanced feature on our fabulous little Nokias was probably Snake. Halcyon days.
Talking of posts and stuff, when I signed in earlier, a childish dinosaur and some cacti apoeared, a bit like a very basic video game. It took 3 attempts to make it go away.
Have you had anything like that? Odd xxx
My go to is wholemeal seeded, but I like cheese and olive, also cranberry and mixed seeds
No, it's not stupid our kid, it's normal. We're similar atm, no ENT clinic till the end of the month and I keep thinking we've missed something out.
A small victory here today - not one eye leak from OH. A triumph, actually.
Keep close to each other hon, it does help xxx
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