St George of the Garden wrote on Feb 10^th, 2015 at 8:09am:



pain is pain do you take panadol osteo...I can take 6 a day.. and I take them in doses of 3...I find I dont ache so much when I go out...I dont need them when I am at home....but its worth a try...same with feledene cream..

if it works try it..

After the hip replacement op I was given 20 Endones (opiates) when I was sent home. Stopped taking them after a few days then a few days later woke in the early hours thinking of the Endones, that I should take one. . .spent two hours wrestling with myself then took 2 Panadol Osteo, went to sleep and never thought about the Endones again, took the 11 I had left back to the hospital pharmacy soon after that! That really shook me up, how I wanted to take another Endone! I believe I just skirted the edge of addiction, confirmed when working out with AnnieLaurie on my board, on vicodin long term, that I was within a tablet or two of addiction, well of problems with addiction anyway.

So I tend not to take too much in the way of pain killers. Nice glass of beer at the end of the day does the job for me, feel nice and happy sipping the amber fluid 

Been getting some messages re my proposed gardening board, combine it with Fermentations. Guess we could call it “Grow it, Can it, Ferment it” or something like that.

My chooks, Naffy and Blacky agree:

geo like I said pain is pain its very personal the osteo helped me turning or moving in bed was a killer..

my pain was far worse before the op than after...doing the physio exercises whilst painful did work.. its worth it eventually...

isnt beer an addiction as well.. .. ok I know....its the medicinal kind.

geo fresh laid eggs... they dont even taste like the ones we have to buy from the shops....there is just something beautiful about that fresh egg...dreaming....

remember the old days when almost everyone had chooks....

St George of the Garden wrote on Feb 10^th, 2015 at 9:37am:




you would have to fish me out of the pond as well I CANT swim...lol.. playing soft music is supposed to work as well..

St George of the Garden wrote on Feb 10^th, 2015 at 10:21am:


good to hear that... however if you drink every day not good either....so I have read.....I could trip into the pond...lol.. I am good at doing that or I was before the op...I didnt put two and two together until much later when I realised I wasnt picking my foot up as well as I should have been lol...so took a couple of nasty falls..

so did you hear anything about a gardening section Geo??.. or is it too early to call....

I do think you being the person we can all ask questions of.. it will go well in your fermenting board....all those fruit trees you grow...I have a cherry tree did really well for its first year so I am expecting a lot more next season...have lemon and a lime tree in pots.. so dont expect too much from them...a plum tree sounds nice though