Clive

The ones on our front garden are in the sun most of the day, but they do suffer if it is windy.....no shelter. The ones on the back are mostly in the shade of the trees and 6ft high fence, but they grow just fine. When ours are nearly to full height i put a cane support next to them for support.....the stalk/stems are easily broken by the wind.

Week 3 was when we started to feel a bit better. We feel 90% better now..........but the slightest physical exertion and I need to sit down....everything seems like hard work......cough gone though.

Sorry for the late reply.......They are Paeony Poppies...they grow about 1 metre tall...look very nice, but do not last very long, wind or rain soon destroys them...but look very nice when in full flower.

Nobody in my family had deafness....i am the 1st.....tinnitus, right ear is absolutely silent, left ear sound like the sound you hear on a airplane when it's flying....a constant hum, had it for so long that I have learnt to ignore it, it's worse at night, so loud it is deafening.

It is lonely, and getting more so for me....my wife and daughter are very good, look straight at me and talk clearly, it does help being in a quiet environment (no TV or radio blasting away) but most people seem to mumble nowdays...daughter in law is the worst... As I said to another member, one thing I really miss is music.

Think being a lorry driver helped.....only had outside mirrors to see behind, and always checking for vehicles hiding just outside the mirrors blind spots, or some cyclist with a death wish riding up the inside of the lorry........spent more time looking out for other drivers and having to drive accordingly.

Emergency vehicles nope can't hear them at all........ But I do take more care at junctions and use my eyes and mirrors much more when driving/riding about. Good rider nope I am competent...

I have removed all of our sharp knives from our kitchen drawers, just in case. She does loose her temper with me being deaf at times......er most of the time actually.

I worry more on the scoot.....I can just hear the engine, but with my lack of and distorted hearing it sounds nothing like a engine....it is hard to describe the sound I hear.......so if it was getting ready to go bang I would not know. I do know a guy who was passed for a cochlear implant and had one fitted, he was very disappointed with the results, he said everyone sounds like Minions.

Next step it to get her to do the repairs if it does.

Now that I can hear next to nothing I rely on my wife to tell me if there are any strange noises emanating from the car (obviously she can't do the same with the scoot) and if it's about to go pop or bang...

That's great news Music I have not listened to it for the last couple of years, no point really... I hope your hearing remains about the same and you can continue to hear as much as you can now for the foreseeable future.

That is in the back garden, out of sight.

I grow these each year....after the flower has died away I collect the seeds which I have to put in the freezer for 2 week, if i dont the seeds will not germinate.

How much!!!

And it is a super king-size bed.....even harder..

I thought I felt back to near normal.....I have just put a new quilt cover, sheet and pillow cases on our bed and now I am knackered....had to sit down....

Mine expires on my 70th birthday........I think it has to be renewed every 3 years after that. Will look into it more nearer the time.

Did mine in November.....

Well done @busabeast

I think some people are just thinking they have flu......our neighbour just the other day said to my wife over the fence......me and Roland (her husband) have the flu..........I know from experience that if she had flu she would not be walking around her garden in 6c.

I think my Dacia will see out my driving days... It's 9 years old now with 66,000 miles on the clocks...plenty of life left in it.

Every time i went out or came back in......cough cough cough. Wife was even worse.......she coughed utill she had to find somewhere to sit down. But (we think) she had Covid in the February that it all started......we were in Cyprus coming home and there was a few on the plane coughing and barking......then she started the next day.....it was early in the Covid pandemic....and our doctor said she had just a chest infection.......but looking back on it we think it was Covid.....she really struggled to get air into her lungs for nearly 2 weeks...she spent all that time sleeping propped up on our sofa...when she could sleep.......if it had been a few weeks or more later I think she would have been in hospital.