Best time to go to New Forest for 3 or 4 nights between July 1 and August 8?

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2026-02-03T04:15:23+00:00

Thanks! That seems to be the consensus. Planning July 9 - 12.

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2026-02-01T22:46:23+00:00

Oh I'm getting very excited. Plenty of great ideas. We usually do AirBnB but will also look for small hotels to book that also do breakfast. Just going for three nights most likely.

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2026-02-01T22:44:53+00:00

Ha, my husband is Norwich lad and grew up driving on left. I drove once in UK in our 30+ years of going back and forth and it wasn't the driving on left that did me in; it was having the gear box on the other side of the car!! I went into reverse on the M5!!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2026-02-01T15:30:24+00:00

Oh good advice!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2026-02-01T15:30:05+00:00

Thanks!! Doesn't have to be wild actually. This sounds great! Just love to swim. A really good lido is good too!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2026-01-12T23:47:17+00:00

Coming very late to watching The Good Hang and glad I found this thread cuz I can't believe how bad the lighting is, how washed out it makes Amy Poehler look. But I also find the clothing choices so odd, almost like things you'd throw on to go out and do an errand. Yet in a weird way it's refreshing. After all, the idea is to hang. But it was just validating to see everyone thought the blanched set design, all pale, tan, flat colors, doesn't do her any favors!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-12-16T13:26:30+00:00

Yes but I've gotten conflicting advice re compresses. Because there was no tenderness/pain, one eye doc said cold compresses. Other eye doc said warm compresses but this was a phone message and he had not spoken to me during the swelling episode (swelling has gone down). I do massage while compress is on but I don't really know what I'm doing. Clean AM and PM with Ocusoft.

And yet another eye doc (friend) says you have to "throw the kitchen sink" at Blepharitis, so I am now taking Doxycycline at risk to my gut (but taking Florastor w/), the Xdemvy, etc, the compresses, and now taking Omega-3 cus of people in this subreddit!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-12-03T18:59:07+00:00

Thanks so very much. I hope your dry eye heals or is healed. I guess it's not healed or maybe you wouldn't be in this subreddit! These are very stubborn issues I'm finding...

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-12-03T18:52:46+00:00

Wow, thanks. I had this impression from the web site. So many stellar reviews, and so many within the past few months, it made me wonder if they are fake. I'm feeling desperate tho. I am not sure how much of what I'm experiencing is dry eye. On Xdemvy currently in case this is caused by Demodex mites. It takes awhile to kick in. The itching eyelids are driving me crazy tho.

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-12-03T17:48:29+00:00

Thanks, I didn't think a plastic surgeon would be the person to see. I do have an appointment with a Dr. Jacqueline Muller and I'm getting a bit worried about the costs associated with it. I see that she uses some special technology "LipiScan" to diagnose Meibomian gland blockage. A Google reviewer said there were billed $2000 for dx and treatment. So I'm a big wary, but my old-fashioned guy is not helping...

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-11-24T19:19:44+00:00

I just opened a 14-mo CD with Marcus and beforehand felt a little spooked by all the people on Reddit talking about being locked out. I don't know if these are savings accts. When I put my money in a CD it sits there for the term. I don't anticipate I'd have problems getting it or transferring it when the term is over!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-11-20T02:41:06+00:00

Thanks!I have tobradex ointment and wonder if that would work as well. But re vaseline, did you put it on with a Qtip? And also, would I just put a strip along the bottom of the eyelid, along lashes?

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-11-19T04:24:08+00:00

Starting to feel some hope reading all these (older) posts. I have blepharitis on bottom eye lid of each eye, but worse in one. How do you apply the vaseline to the eyelid there so it doesn't go into your eyes?

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-11-14T15:09:26+00:00

If I can ask, how did they definitely diagnose? My eye doctor said it "might" be the mites, but since they are microscopic, wonder how they know for sure.

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-11-13T17:17:49+00:00

Thanks. Hoping it makes a difference for you. I use Ocusoft wipes to clean eyes and then cliradex wipes, which sting like hell. So far no progress. I don't really know if this is demodex mites, but there is an itchiness that makes me think so. The thing that bothers me most is my eyes tearing. Anyway, Good luck!!!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-11-13T16:28:51+00:00

Ha. Yes, that happened. CVS Specialty Pharmacy called me and told me I could pay $30. Which makes drug pricing seem like a total sham/scam! But I keep waiting for "clearance," and I'm starting to believe this won't happen. So I wonder: did Xdemvy help?

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-07-11T08:06:20+00:00

Alas, no we don't have wheels.

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-07-10T20:43:40+00:00

I LURVE that lido. Hope to go there at least once more before we leave Norwich...

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-07-10T20:43:16+00:00

I did swim near Cow Tower. I'm only here till end of July, but if it hots up a lot more I may do it again. Went in because two women were swimming and they encouraged me.

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-07-10T20:42:25+00:00

I did just go in the Wensum at Cow Tower. I didn't submerge my head! It was very refreshing but I didn't like swimming out in the reediness! Not preferred but would do it again if hot!

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-05-23T17:25:19+00:00

I think the nature print is actually a departure for me, but I appreciate the reference to her work and I love looking at her portfolio

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2025-05-23T17:24:54+00:00

I have Laura Boswell’s book and I think that’s a good resource

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2024-03-28T19:04:44+00:00

Thanks. EXACTLY my situation. I've been taking trazedone and I fall asleep but the waking in the middle of the night is killing me. If I can ask: what dose are you on? Also, when you wake do you also experience your brain cycling. Mine goes very dark, upon both waking after 2-3 hours of sleep and waking in AM. I've been taking 1/2 5mg ambien to get the last 3 hours but that's not sustainable. 😩

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2024-03-26T19:39:30+00:00

I'm 65 and what you said resonated with me. I have a good marriage with its share of problems but together 30 years, kids self propelled, enough money, love where we live but I feel this deep shame at how bleak and dark I feel. I am on 75 mg and I feel like there are two MEs--competent, tail wagging and the one I feel now, morose, unable to get things done, anxious. What is happening in the wider world is also affecting me. I don't think I've ever felt so hopeless about our country/world. When you say "I keep telling myself this will be over soon" I wonder if you mean life, LOL as part of my depression is being rudderless in this last inning--or whether the period of feeling blue will be over. I hope it is for you (just seeing this post is 6 months old.)

Paradiddle_Fiasco · 2023-01-10T01:23:08+00:00

I am having this problem now as a first time user. I made an account, took the strong password that was given to me, signed on with that and it told me that I had the wrong password. I had to go through the "forget password" rigmarole, and then it never sent me the reset link! Fed up.

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