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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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My hands are toasty warm - I've just done the washing up.
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Evening Derek 
Aye, it warmed mine up earlier but didn't half make my PN tingle! My OH is pretty much banned from the kitchen as he makes more mess - including the washing up. You must be an exception to the general rule... lucky Mrs excavator xxx
That's what I keep telling her!
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My dishwashing machine broke about 2 years ago - the shelf runners failed after rusting through. However, as I've lived alone since April 2025, I've got back in the swing of dish washing. I remember as a kid having to earn my pocket money. One of the tasks that mum would trust me and my brother to do was washing and drying the dishes. The best day for us was after the Sunday roast. I spent some time testing the 'seaworthiness' of the gravy boat. Better still, the next few days would be beef dripping on toast days, sometimes for breakfast and tea time. It gave us a nice warm glow before winter school days or before going to bed in an unheated bedroom. Central heating was rare in the UK until at least the early 1970s (quietly ignoring the Romans who had underfloor heating about a thousand years earlier!). My current dishwashing is boring. Nothing floats properly 
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Evening Ray
Quite a bit of your post reminds me of our childhood. Halcyon days, especially the part about beef dripping. Delicious 
When I was younger I always plumped for drying up, as I've got an almost fanatical aversion to sauce - a phobia no less. After Sunday tea, the salad cream dregs left on the plates would float to the top of the water, and I couldn't bear it on my hands. Thank god OH doesn't like it either, else he would have to wash up. Hope you're keeping well my friend xxx
My mam always insisted I did the washing up, I guess it was the least I could do after she'd done all the cooking. It also got my dad out of a job so he could go and read the Yorkshire Post.
I do think it's amusing when we get a cold snap like at present with weather and health / hazard warnings are issued when the temperature dips below freezing by a couple of degrees. I remember well the ice patterns on the inside of my bedroom window in winter which I found fascinating as a youngster. Happy days.
Derek.
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So do I Derek - I found the ice fascinating too, and we had no central heating, indoor bathroom or any mod cons.
The nanny state has created a generation of softies - we're from the stiff upper lip brigade and it suits us fine 
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We had an indoor bathroom but no central heating and the old crittal metal windows. I would get dressed in bed while it was still warm 
. We had a coal fire in the living room and I would make paper knots out of the pages of the Liverpool Echo for Dad to get the fire going.
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