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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
For a while I have tried to find a thread I had started when I joined the forum that could be a "home" thread for me.
Being busy about the forum has been a coping style, where I can acknowledge all my different life experiences that had been silenced. Possibly do some good and prevent things from getting worse. Like the little boy with the finger in the dyke.
Feeling fragile
Needing Nurture
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thx @Fancy_Pants lol
Hi @Shaz51
@Former-Member I have never heard that Yank one. I am gonna use it one day (with feeling) (off the forum). I was so NOT racist and I had to swallow so much Bull.
Thx
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Aware of vulnerability at both extremes of the heat spectrum.
Fires are coming close to where my son did a lot of local busking.
Sitting in an overly air conditioned office for one hour nearly put my neck out, at any rate severly stressed it. The vent was in fron of me so it was not due to air stream directly on my neck, but the level of refrigeration of temp which the staff could not control.
Both the female workers suffered coughs and colds due to it. They were nice and opened a door, but that was not the answer either.
Why do work places act so dumb ... so now when asked about barriers to employment, I am going to have to say over air conditioned buildings .... better safe than sorry with my neck. And companies write it off as a tax expense ... when they should change the settings.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
hello @Appleblossom, I agree my friend
it is the same in hospitals , when mum says "it is cold in here " and you find out the aircon is going straight on her at 22 degrees and my mum is 87 and weighs 40kgs
come on , face the aircon up in the air on not on a frail patient
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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outlanderSenior Contributor
@Appleblossomthese are for you 
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
@Appleblossom
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thank you @Shaz51 & @outlander
Am listening to Beethovens Emporer Concerto atm.
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom dropping off a rock of a different kind.
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Hope4meSenior Contributor
Saying "Hello" @Appleblossom and wishing you well.
(Beethoven was a grumpy looking man wasn't he? lol)
I hale from Apple country; Springtime's my fave season for colour and aroma...
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