Allotment group

I started the allotment group on Wednesday. I had been hesitating over doing it because the allotment is a little way from the day centre and i was scared of getting lost getting there(I am not good when it comes to directions especially in unfamiliar places). I went down with the two people running the group by bus and found the route was more straightforward than i thought(not twists and turns and lots of turn left turn right etc to confuse me). When the weather is nicer it's within walking distance of where i live - 45-50 minutes leisurely stroll.

Spent the two or so hours i was down there 'twitching'(no not that kind of twitching!)ie helping to get rid of the twitch grass(which apparently is what they call a couch grass).The plot we have got is inundated with the stuff as it had not been used for years before the allotment group started up.
The best we can hope to do is get rid of much of it as possible as rooting out all of it is just too overwhelming a task. Shirley's husband said it would take a few years to thoroughly eradicate the twitch.It's definitely not something to do if you are overly OCDish.
I quite enjoyed myself alibi i was finding myself getting a little woozy
from the constant bending down and standing up(a touch of postural hypotension methinks).
Surprisingly my back held up quite well considering i'm not used to doing much in the way of manual work and i'm quite prone to unexpected muscle spasms. However i felt physically a little out of sorts/run down afterwards(like the 6- 24 hour fluey kind of thing i can get when emotionally stressed{somatic reaction}).
I am not surprised at this as it's not unusual for me to feel this way when i've done (for me) quite a lot of exercise/physical type work.
That won't put me off going next week though as i'll be right as rain well before then.

Hi!

Hi Stig. My illustrious roll of diagnoses starting from when i was 18 have included schizophrenia, schizophrenia with disorder of gender identity ,schizophrenia with personality disorder,schizoaffective mixed type,bipolar, and currently stands at Personality disorder NOS qualified by comments such as 'with emotional and explosive traits' 'consisting of sensitive and explosive traits' 'mainly consisting of sensitive,compulsive,emotional,unstable,and impulsive behaviour'.

Then of course there's been the unofficial musings of various pdocs ie 'dependent personality disorder with probably some histrionic traits '. 'very dependant narcissistic disorder' and not forgetting years ago the very old fashioned 'nervous debility'.

Which just goes to prove the adage that if you give a hundred pdocs an imaginary patient with a set of symptoms they'll arrive at a smorgasbord of different diagnoses dependant on which symptoms they individualistically give most weight to.

Using a minimalist method of diagnosis they could call it 'mutliply messed up in the head disorder' . Sometimes it's hard to tell if one is 'normally insane' or 'insanely normal

That's great that you went/are going teejai! The twitch grass doesn't sound like fun though. My aunt, after she retired from teaching had a little landscaping sort of business and I was visiting her (she lives in San Francisco and I in Maryland) and she took me out on a job and I helped her with the crabgrass. It was very weird as it reminded me of my own teen years when my stepmother had made my brothers and me help with the weeding and lawn cleanup, etc.

I'm thinking of going out in my own yard in a bit and doing some leaf raking from old/last year leaves and cutting back a bush or planting some green beans, etc. I planted my lettuces the other day.

I lived in San Francisco for 3 years during the mid 60s. I quite liked it there.
My father was working at the British consulate there.

Ah, I didn't think to look and remember you're in England. I'm near Washington, D.C. so getting to San Francisco is a ways away for me too :-) We lived there when I was little (2 and 3) and I've visted there off and on the rest of my life. My aunt's 87 next week, so I'd better run out and get her a birthday card!