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9:37 pm
just spent a lovely few months learning to make jam; chutneys etc; just begun to sell them here in FRance;
Saturday; disaster; cleaning and cut through my right thumb severing the nerves; was operated on but am in plaster for at least 2 weeks so all jam making stopped; deeply frustrating
Still am going to try and get hubby organised into preparing the chicken coop, so there is some excitement ahead!
11:31 pm
Enthusiast
Wed 23-Sep-09
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Sorry to hear that, Shelley.
If you have freezer space to keep the fruit and stuff in, all is not lost.
David
8:33 am
Sat 12-Aug-06
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Hi Shelley
Bad luck - that souinds painful and bang in the middle of the preserving season too.
8:56 am
yep;
2 weeks off the real job too; here in france sick, pay is based on average of prev 3 months pay ; as I didnt work august and work was thin in july then the average is going to be very low 🙁
oh well focus on the good stuff!!
6:52 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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Poor you 
Hope that you make a miracle recovery.
7:28 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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That is rotten luck, Shelley, and the short term financial forecast seems a bit bleak too.
I hope your home is not under threat. I dread to think what might happen to us if similar bad luck happened to me while Fiona is still recovering. Working for a large international corporation, as I do, means that a bean counter in Manila could take me off the payroll with a single keystroke. It makes one feel very vulnerable.
Good luck, and we (all of us on this forum) are always here to provide moral support.
Looking on the bright side, it might mean that you work out ways of cost cutting that you can share with us!
Thumb up 
Never knowingly underfed
7:51 pm
already on the cost cutting front here
we moved to france 2yrs ago when the exchange rate pounds to euros was 1 pound to 1.46 euros; my husband was and still is paid in pounds. On arrival we got what seemed like an achievable mortgage and settled down.
2 years on the exchange rate is nearly 1:1 and the achievable mortgage is significantly less so with a 30% drop in income!!
however we are soooo much happier here and will never move back so despite all issues life is GOOD!
5:53 am
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Shelley,
I had to stop and see what the AARGH was about, and boy you deserve to yell with that stroke of bad luck!
I wish I could do more than send my sympathy, I hope you recover soon!
Michelle
If you can't be a shining example, be a terrible warning!
12:42 pm
THX for your kind words
climbing the walls through boredom already (I am never still usually)
6:51 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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What's the latest on the Thumb Emergency, Shelley?
I hope everybody appreciated my "thumb up" comment. 
Never knowingly underfed
11:28 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Danny said:
What's the latest on the Thumb Emergency, Shelley?
I hope everybody appreciated my "thumb up" comment.
We need a 'groan' smiley too!
I'll try that again!
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