Cramps, flowers, the army and soup.

[whatho]

Today I am a mass of cramps to the point of not being able to walk upright, and my mefanamic acid tastes grim and doesn't entirely work. It is very little fun. I have nonetheless been tidying in the garden, because its untidyness was getting slightly upsetting. It was tricky because I don't really know which things are dead and which things are just hibernating for the winter. I'm going to leave the apparently-dead things till April in case some of them come back to life. I badly need to learn which plants are perennials and which are basically hamsters. Three of my snowdrops have flowered. The BBC says I should line my hanging baskets (they're are three of them and not so much hanging as stuck to the wall) with something fibrous and then a piece of bin bag and then some potting compost and slow-release fertiliser. I have some compost made from vegetable leftovers, and none of the other things. I don't know what to do with the pots. I wonder if I can't just trust the ordinary ground to support life.

In an unrelated topic, you know those adverts for the army? They're fun. They're very much not speaking to me. In my favourite one there was a great big gorge and the bridge had fallen down or been blown up or something along those lines. The caption was 'If you're thinking How am I going to get across?, don't bother calling us. If you're thinking How are we going to get across?, pick up the phone'. But they didn't say what you should do if you were thinking 'How are they going to get across?, which I was.

I'm having tinned tomato soup for me tea. It's allowed. I'm almost ill.

Comments

[jekesta]

Hello, I have cramps too, but probably not as bad as yours, I have spent most of the day huddled under blankets, drinking ludicrous amounts of tea and eating peppermint chocolate. It doesn't help, but I think it's valid.

I love the army adverts, have they brought them back, or are you from the past? I can't work out your tenses. Mostly there should be an option for people who were thinking 'how would Reacher get across?'

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Cramps are the theme of the day. I WISH THEY WEREN'T. I didn't have peppermint chocolate. That was silly of me.

The army advert I spoke of above is from the past but I was thinking of them because they had one in the cinema before My Name is Khan. It wasn't quite like the old ones but it very much made me think how little I wanted to be in the army.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a shame. My mefanemic acid always works pretty well. Although I mostly don't taste it, due to washing it down quickly with water. My mum used it for a bit when she was younger I think, and she said it always used to upset her stomach. I guess it doesn't work for everyone.

I like the adverts for the army that say "We will come across the land. We will come from the sea!". They're for the commandos I think. I would be annoyed at the sexism in them, but the last time I saw one at the cinema and said something to my mum she seemed to think women couldn't join the commandos. I should check if that's true, actually.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

It works quite well normally, though it's never a total block, but I think the problem is that it works better the longer I take it: I've had a relatively unpainful preceding fortnight, so I didn't take any. I am a fool. It doesn't bother my stomach, which is nice.

The last one I saw was for the marines. There were no women in the advert. I can't remember if the marines have women. I don't want to be in the marines, but the option should be open.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Aaah. They do say that you should try to take some the night before you think you're going to start your period, to get it into your system, and stop the cramps from really getting started, if you know what I mean. But I can never predict when mine's going to start, and I don't like just taking pills when I don't need to, so I sympathise.

According to this list, there is a division called the Royal Marines Commandos, so it might be the same thing. From what I remember the advert bangs on about trusting your 'brothers', and according to that page "The SRR (Special Reconnaisance Regiment) is the only UK special forces unit to recruit women". So it looks like women can't be in the commandos. I don't know why.