Thank you. Although I've heard what happened to the war animals, I've never heard of Purple Poppy Day. From now on I'll remember the date.Just a shout out to all the brave animals who gave their lives for one & all in all wars!
It’s Purple Poppy Day today!
My grandfather was a Gallipoli veteran & was in Eygpt in Light Horse Brigade!
Those beautiful horses were their “mates” & when the soldiers left, they had to take their “mate” out in desert & shoot them, because the army wouldn’t bring them home!!! The soldiers wouldn’t leave them to the locals who wouldn’t have treated them well! I think one was left in Eygpt with a family who promised to look after the horse & one was left with a family in Turkey that the soldier smuggled to them rather than shoot him!
He was known as “Bill the “Bastard”!!
If you enjoy reading, have a read of the book “Bill the Bastard”, it’s great!
Anyhow, spare a thought for these brave animals, dogs, horses, pigeons & others that helped the war effort & still do, along with our police dogs & horses, emergency service dogs in many countries! We owe them a great deal!🕊
Lest We Forget
Ivory, I love to see the sunrise through my bedroom window. That’s when I get up and start my day. So my sleeping strategy follows the early-to-bed-early-to-rise motto. I am usually blottoYes, I’ve tried melatonin without success. I’ve undertaken Sleep Hygiene practices over many months, even stopped coffee️, but these have had no benefit. After several stints in hospital it has been identified that I have a number os issues that impact on a decent nights sleep. Despite never sleeping well though I have noticed other SDC members awake at all odd hours.
Are we all tarred with the same brush or are sleep issues synonymous with the SDC?
Do members have strategies that work for them? If you do it would be great if you would share!
by 9pm. I’m lucky to have no pains or aches as you and so many do, and have catnaps like Garfield — anywhere, anytime. But if I wake during the night and want to go back to sleep I open my latest audiobook. No matter how fascinating the story, I rarely make the end of a chapter.
I’ve never tried audiobooks before because I think they would put me to sleep then I’d spend half of the nxt day finding the page. Not sure of the slang in QLD anymore, but blotto down here has negative, alcohol based connotationsIvory, I love to see the sunrise through my bedroom window. That’s when I get up and start my day. So my sleeping strategy follows the early-to-bed-early-to-rise motto. I am usually blotto
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Beckjennie, what amount of Magnesium do you take. I take it twice per day on Dr advice but wondering if I’m taking too low a dose. Thanks
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. I hope I haven’t dared you with my issues and truss I haven’t bored you with overbearing details. It’s good to be busy both for the body and mind, but I rely on my mind these days, and love the interactive, quite stimulating forum to be a good diversionary tactic these days. Thanks again
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