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Now that I have upgraded to my sooper-duper package, it means I can 'stream' lots now without restrictions. Luvin the birdies.

Hope you have a wonderful one - and sorry, still can't do flashy pictures - but I shall bake a cake, and then tell you later how scrummy it is!

Gorgeous pics Scylla - you are such a clever techie person.

I have enough problems using my idiot's camera to take a pic, upload it to my pooter, and manage to send it for printing! Even I think I am stoopid when it comes to 'simple'! :-[

The birds that come to my garden every morning - and into the house if I am not quick off the mark > - are costing me a fortune in seed, sultanas and breadcrumbs. I could afford M&S ready cooked super-dooper meals if I wasn't spending so much keeping this lot going! I regularly get circa 60-80 birds daily - several times daily in fact - who are now bringing their babies! Alfred Hitchcock scene or what? The robin was on my kitchen work-top this morning.

I watched last evening (Ospreys) - and mum was feeding the biggie 10 times as much as littley, despite her constant attempts to get some. She is obviously getting enough to keep her going, and mum is a real trooper when it comes to 'sharing'. Unfortunately she just hasn't learned: one for you, then one for you!

Have you been watching BBCs Springwatch? Last night was heartbreaking - a nest of babies (four of them) now all dead. A new mum - who kept leaving the nest for too long, babies got cold thus didn't open mouths for food, food arrived, 'sleeping/cold' babies' - parents apparently new and not quite comprehending what the babies needed etc. So sad, because I am sure they were doing their best. Isn't nature cruel at times?

MM - good luck with your exhibition. Hope you get it all togather - am sure you will.

Just want a GGTB - and am pretty darned sure that when they finally become available - if ever - I am gonna miss them - again! Off for another sulk. >>>

Am putting in my two-penny-worth to add to the pondering.

Firstly, the itching thing. I don't have that, but did, for reasons which have been identified via a hospital consultant. My skin condition began two years before me vaping. Similar to what is described above. In fact, mine began when I returned from Thailand. At that point I was getting a flare-up which looked like a bite, which itched, And I assumed I had imported something nasty via Thailand - a mozzy-type insect, albeit no-one else was getting 'bitten'.) But within days (probably with me rubbing and scratching the spot) these then flared up into circular dry itchy patches. These were on my hands, legs and feet. Few on my torso, none on my neck or face. Three visits to the GP to no avail, finally I was referred to a consultant at the hospital. The diagnosis (wait for it - and no rude comments allowed, 'specially form the Cluttery person) was 'Asteototic Eczema' - which if you Google, is 'senile eczema'! It is an age thing, that I now have under control with creams as and when necessary.

But, my issue now, which I am sure is attached to vaping, is that I have had increasing chest congestion - and at times severe. One night I awoke barely able to breathe, and nearly phoned for an ambulance. I say that being someone who doesn't waste time or energy rushing to doctors. However, after several more similar bouts, I did finally visit my doc about three weeks ago. I told him that I had given up smoking a year ago - and mentioned that all my years of smoking rarely caused me chest problems. I didn't tell him about my vaping, albeit the last doc I had seen ought to have put that on my records - as I had told him.

After a session of puffing into a gizmo he had, I was told that he suspected it was athsma, and that my ability to blow into his gizmo had shown to be poor. Apparently the number should have been circa 400, whilst my ability to 'blow' only reached 250. Of course this means little to me other than to say that something isn't right. I now have a puffer doo-dah - which does help if and when I get an attack. I also have a visit booked to the athsma clinic one week from now.

I have Googled 'Athsma in aging people'! And that wasn't too helpful, as like the senile eczema, people of my age can also develop athsma from nowhere, with the medical experts having no idea why.

However, I largely vape VG. But, in the light of what you are all saying, perhaps I should get on to James to see if he can supply a couple of weeks of PG for me to try that? Also, my main vaping flavours are: Paradise Vape L and B, which I doctor/mix with caramel and coffee.

Not sure that helps anyone, but it is more info which hopefully gets us all eliminating or considering whether the vaping is responsible.

As for the sleep issue, well, sadly, that also is something to expect with age - vaping or not! My sleep pattern/ability has been really bad for circa 15 years - long before vaping was invented. >