Messages posted by : AllyG
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Snowbandit,
I was walking very carefully outside on our concrete 'skating rink' and I fell crash - flat on my back. I don't think I've ever seen it this bad before. I nearly failed to get back in our door - my husband was going to look for a piece of rope to tow me back in :lol: And I've got to get 3 houses ready for Christmas and the New Year - ours plus the two holiday cottages. Luckily I don't seem to have broken anything :D Ally |
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It's been raining here, last night and early this morning, and now it's frozen, and we have black ice everywhere. The concrete outside our door has turned into a skating rink, and I could hardly walk up our road, never mind drive up it. I think black (or transparent really) ice is incredibly dangerous, much worse than snow, because at least with snow you can see it.
I am hoping it will thaw out later because I still have some shopping to do. How's everyone else getting on with the snow in other places? Ally |
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If the mainstream treatments aren't helping, the alternative ones can sometimes work.
A few years ago my husband had a really bad back - problems with the sacro-iliac joint - and he could hardly walk for months. He was going to the GP but all he got from him was anti-inflammatories, pain killers and sick notes. He tried a physio as well, but no good. Eventually he had a really bad day and he was lying on the floor in total agony virtually unable to move (he had to crawl on hands and knees to the toilet) and the GP came round and couldn't do anything, and a friend of ours who is a reflexologist said he'd come and have a look at him. All our friend did was twiddle my husband's feet, and the pain went instantly and he went to sleep on the floor (after being awake all night in spite of taking massive amounts of pain killers). And when he woke up he just got up - problem gone :D :D I know it sounds an unlikely tale :shock: , but it is totally true. I wish I'd videod it. And I'm not recommending reflexology for everyone for everything, but in this case it produced a startling cure. Ally |
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I have to agree with Dave Mac. I wouldn't wait. I'd go and find someone (physio/chiropracter/osteopath etc.) as soon as possible, especially as you want to be ski-ing soon.
Ally |
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What's wrong with wearing your ski jacket? I always do. I'm certainly not taking 2 jackets on holiday with me. |
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Der Bomber,
Thanks very much for your Obergurgl review :D. It has jogged my memory about the place. I was pretty sure the pistes down from the top Hochgurgl restaurant were blue and black, but I checked the piste map to be sure, and they are. http://www.obergurgl.com/main/EN/GG/WI/skigebiet/skigebietsfacts/index.html (Scroll down and click on the ski map). As you said, the blue one was really quite difficult when I went down it (3 years ago). I'm ashamed to admit I snowploughed all the way down it, because it was so narrrow, icy, and it had that very nasty drop to the left. The black one looked really very hard. Perhaps you didn't go to Obergurgl during the British school holidays? There were plenty of British kids when we went, although there were also several German children in my daughter's class (who spoke very good English). And my daughter's instructor spoke excellent English. I'm surprised you thought Obergurgl village was pretty. I thought it was quite ugly myself. It was basically just a long road with a series of hotels along it. I totally agree with you about the length of time it took to eat dinner. To me, it was a very strange way of eating. They'd give you about a tablespoonful of food on one plate, then come and take your plate and cutlery away, and bring another tablespoonful of food on another plate with more cutlery, and so on for a couple of hours. I'm used to having a heaped plate of dinner on one plate using one set of cutlery. I'm glad I wasn't doing the washing up! By the end of the week I was dying to get home and cook myself some 'proper' dinner. My overall impression of the place was that it was a very middle-class sort of place - full of wealthy people who liked to be comfortable on their ski-ing holidays. I distinctly remember the windshields on the chairlifts :D. Ally |
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Nelly, The picture I can see is a bit small. Can you get it any bigger, without making it huge? Ally |
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