As the Ian Dury song said - "Reasons to be cheerful......."

[Smowball]

1. I have my health (well its not bad lol)
2. I have 4 lovely healthy children
3.I have a husband I love.
4.I have a job( I hate it but its a job)
5.I have a nice home and a nice car.
6.This week I was blessed with my first grandchild : )
7.I have fantastic in-laws. Really, am not joking!

Thats not a bad lot is it? xx

[Smowball]

ummmm, you could well be talking about my youngest 'darling'. Would he b about the same age? mine is 12 - 13 this year.

[ummmm]

13 the youngest.....

The 'you don't understand what I'm going through' is 15.

Funny, they get praised so much...such lovely, well mannered, boys. It leaves me perplexed!!! I try and tell people they are not like this at home....They don't believe me.

Boys are minging!!

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - my psoraiasis is pretty bad - but i am very lucky because it doesan't itch or hurt at all.

Because it's in my scalp, I dream fruitlessly of wearing dark clothes, and that gets me down on a daily basis, however, it's something to live with.

Has anyone ever tried accupuncture for it?

Sorry to hijack your thread Smowball xx

[chaptazbru]

Good thread Smowball (and I'm an expert now of course!).

My reasons to be cheerful:

1. Supposed to rain today, but it's been wall to wall sunshine!
2. I love my big, beautiful dog.
3. Friend coming to stay from Scotland soon and we're going to see
Phantom in Manchester.
4. I have a cosy, little house, all paid for now.
5. Cold starting to feel better.
6. OH coming round tonight to cook and he's a good cook.

[Smowball]

A-H, feel free!
Thanks Chaptazbru : )
Ummm, I get people say exactly the same to me! How odd. Maybe they just put on the , as I put it, the Kevin and Perry act when they are home.

[NOX]

My wife had horrible, really horrible palmer plantar psoriasis Andy and she tried everything for it, every nasty steroid cream etc in the world. It went in the end by applying honey and also including it in her diet a lot. When she was on the steroid creams the withdrawal if she tried to wean herself off was dreadful, her hands and feet just became a bloody pulp. Dunno if it would help you, or if you have already tried it, but it certianly cleared hers and it hasn't flared up again since.

[MissCommando]

You're a very lucky woman Smowball!

[andy-hughes]

Thanks NOX but i think honey is the spawn of the devil, i can't abide the smell or taste of it, and I would not be able to stand it on my skin, so that's not an option.

Sorry for the confusion owdhamer, I write about music, I don;t actually write music, I just talk to the geniuses who do!

[Ann]

Andy - honey is a great healer, a natural antiseptic, they used to use it on soldiers wounds in the war. Surely you could give it a try - it may help you and you would be so pleasantly surprised.

[Caran]

Andy I had head to foot pustular psoriasis, it was cured by chemotherapy injections. Never came back.

[NOX]

Sorry to hear that andy, not quite sure why you couldn't stand it on your skin if it cleared your psoriasis up, but each to their own and hope you do manage to find soemthing to clear it. What are you being prescribed at the moment?

[Jemisa]

You have indeed found a pot of Gold.

jem

[Maydup]

Respect to the original reason to be cheerful........

Why don't you go back to bed
Why don't you go back to bed

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Some of Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley add nanny goats

18-wheeler Scammels, Thumbing out the candles
All other mammals must eat their oats.
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats

A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks

The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing small pox

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Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
round or skinny bottoms

Take your mum to paris
lighting up the chalice
wee willy harris

Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
Paco, Berto. Chico

Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
balabalabala and Volare

Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying hokey-dokey, singalonga Smokey
Coming out of chokey

John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano
Bonar Colleano

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Yes yes
dear dear
perhaps next year
or maybe even never

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