My Cure for Sleeplessness

[Gemini]

I lived in a little caravan in Sussex between April and November 1976. It was scorchingly hot all through summer, and very cold just before we left, but I can't remember it raining!

[Qwerty]

Qwerty - we had a static caravan, too, and we used to go there all the year round. When the storms were raging in the winter it was amazing. The only thing that used to wake us up was the sound of the farmer's peacocks landing on the roof and running along it! They sounded like jumbo jets landing.

We got that Daisy not peacocks but seagulls !!

[Daisy]

I lived in a little caravan in Sussex between April and November 1976. It was scorchingly hot all through summer, and very cold just before we left, but I can't remember it raining!

Gem - 1976 was the exceptionally hot summer we were talking about on another thread. Parts of the country had no water and were on stand pipes in the street. In Bedfordshire where I was living at the time it started to rain at the beginning of September and carried on for about a month. By that time we were in the process of moving to Worthing and I can't remember whether it got very cold or not. But your caravan must have been like an oven.

Qwerty - it all adds to the charm, doesn't it. I loved those years on Angelsey.

[Gemini]

Daisy, it was so hot we had to be out of the caravan by about 9 am, and stay out of it until early evening! Bearing in mind DD1 was born that February! Luckily we were in a lovely countryside location, so we just kept the baby in the shade and stayed outside all day.
What with that, and having to bring all water we needed ( including to bath the baby) across from the theatre where OH worked, we must have been a hardy breed in those days. I can't imagine my DDs bringing up a baby in those conditions, with all family hundreds of miles away

[Daisy]

Gem - that must have been tough, but as you say, we just got on with things - and no disposable nappies then. I was dreading our water being turned off as OH was already working in Worthing and I couldn't see how I was going to collect buckets of water from the middle of the village, with a toddler and a baby and not even a safe footpath to walk on!

[Gemini]

Daisy, although I had terry nappies and used them the rest of the time, when in East Grinstead I had no water or way of washing nappies, so beween the ages of 5 weeks and 10 months DD was in disposables. They were more or less rectangles of cotton wool, and pretty useless. I had to change her a lot, and she was often sore

[Daisy]

Gem - I remember those awful excuses for disposables. How miserable for you and DD having to use them. When DS1 was about 16 months old we went to see relatives in the Bahamas and they had the American Pampers. I was overjoyed!! I brought as many back with me as I could fit in our cases - never mind souvenirs, Pampers ruled!

[Nana]

Joining in on the back end of this topic. I was going to write on the thread for those of us who can't sleep but can't remember the title of the thread. Time I was asleep...if only😉😁

[Plantaholic]

Oh sorry to read that Nana

[Gemini]

Wide Awake Club Nana, I will bump it up for you. Hope you sleep better tonight x

[Nana]

I need to sleep as I have an early follow-up appointment at the dermatology clinic at the hospital tomoro. Will find out more about what needs to be done/not done with this benign skin cancer on my forehead. They removed it but I'm in for a check up on it. Glad they're thorough.

[Grauntie Mag]

Hope all goes well Nana.

[Plantaholic]

Hope everything will be fine Nana.

[Daisy]

Nana - I think it's harder to sleep when you know you have something important like an appointment the next day. I do hope all went well. xx

[Nana]

Thank you, but my OH cancelled it for me. I had such bad head pain. The next one is December. Feeling a tad better now tho.