Deliveroo Fast Food Delivery

Well as we all know there is quite a few fast food delivery places out there now that delivery from your choice of restaurant on the delivery sites website straight to your door. I decided to try out Deliveroo as it says delivery straight to your door normally within 35 minutes for some places.

We decided to order from a burger restaurant at Camden so literally 15mins from my house. Ordering online on delivery was quite straightforward they show you a list of restaurants that deliver to your postcode when you click on the link to the restaurant you want to order from it shows you the menu and any extras etc you want to add you can. it was well set out and pretty easy payment again was simple you can pay using deliveroo vouchers credit/debit card or cash when the food is delivered.

What I liked about delivery is it shows you the progress your food is going through so shows when its processing being made picked up by driver and when the driver has arrived so you know exactly whats happening with your delivery. Unluckily my food was running late it told me 40mins but took an hour to arrive so my food was quite cold but I think it was waiting around for the driver to pick up from the restaurant as from when it was prepared to the driver to pick up it took nearly 20mins. The 1 thing I did like though is that I got a text message to say the driver would be a bit late what other fast food delivery sites don’t do. The driver could of had some manners though as didn’t even get a thank you enjoy your food have a nice evening nothing all I got out of him was Delivery and that’s it. Deliveroo do also charge £2.50 for deliveries though and they might want to think about taking that of as the other main delivery sites don’t charge a delivery fee.

If you do want to try Deliveroo out you can so here and of course do let me know what you think of their deliveries.

Deliveroo Fast Food Delivery

The Perimenopause and Me

At 44 I thought I was doing pretty well. I suffered with depression at a very young age, but got over that in 3 months. I then got depression after my dad died. It didn’t seem to lift, until I went on Seroxat years later, but also around 1999/2000 I bled a lot. It was crippling pain and I was passing blood clots. This did not help the depression at the time but I thought it was all connected so basically battled through it.

For the last few years I’ve woken up in the middle of the night sweating. It’s wasn’t regular sweating either, it would drip off me, my heart racing, my skin clammy, and then I’d freeze. This went on every night for a week, usually a week before my periods started, to which then I could sleep soundly and comfortably. This was starting to irritate me a little, waking up freezing cold but clearly been sweating like the proverbial pig, drenched.

 

And I was coping up until last month. All of a sudden I felt scared, frightened, very, very nervous and jumpy. Black clouds descended around me and I would burst into tears about anything. I’d hide myself away in the bathroom and just cry, and cry, and cry until I felt sick. But the head rush that made me do it didn’t seem to go away.

I battled on with this for a week, then my period started and within 2 days I was happy again. 4 days later I started getting scared again. My legs kept turning to jelly at the thought of doing anything. Anything at all. So I took to google with my symptoms.

Perimenopause stared at me from the search results. OK, I’d heard of menopause because my mum said she started her menopause early at the age of 33, but I’d never heard of perimenopause before, so after doing research it seems it’s exactly what I have the symptoms for. Oh gawd and has it played with my head.

I don’t feel 44 years old. In my head I’m still 20 something. But I’ve got to that stage in life where it’s time for “the change”. It’s put pay to me wanting to have a baby. It has put pay to me feeling young and has bought on feelings and thoughts of death and illness. My stomach flips now even writing this. Why do I feel old at 44? If we wanted to adopt, we still could, or we could get a surrogate so my yearnings to become a mum could still be realised. It’s made me question so much, and I really didn’t want to have to question anything because I was doing quite well without all the worry.

The anxiety that I’ve had has been as bad as when I lost my dad and I can’t seem to shift it. So I’ve tried a few things to try and bring me back out again. Menopace Plus (I really hoped this was the miracle cure to all but it wasn’t). I’m not sure it’s done anything at all. I’ve also tried Fermarelle. This I thought might work too but I only tried it 2 weeks. I’ve had 1 day this week when I’ve felt ok and that I think was a fluke.

So I wrote to my doctor. He’s put me on Prempak C. I did mention to him that mum went through early menopause and was prescribed Premarin. She found it wonderful.. I’m day 4 on Prempak C and I’m not sure it’s working yet. They say to give it a few weeks at least but I feel like I’m drowning in mud and can’t shift my mood. I’m hating it more and more each day to because I want to feel normal again and I don’t.

Prempak C will probably be ok as I used to take Norgestrol as the mini pill back in 1990 and it took my moodiness away (I was getting quite violent without having something, so the Norgestrel took that anger away) I’m hoping that it starts to take the sadness and anxiety away soon because I’m struggling to cope.

What I have noticed about the perimenopause is the amount of time I’m having to spend in the bathroom. It’s like someone’s turned a tap on as I can’t stop weeing, and it’s also driving me nuts. Spots are also a problem. I have spots on my boobs. I never ever suffered teenage acne, so this is not going down well with me at all. I’ve also got what I think is some kind of infection in my finger which comes and goes. This worry though all started when I had a lump under my arm in my armpit. My doctor came out and said it was nothing but it was getting bigger. Freaked me out that I had cancer. Took my sister 2 days to convince me it wasn’t. But I worked myself up so much I’ve made myself ill with worry.

The lump has now gone. I changed my deodorant from Soft and Gentle to Bionsen and within the month – totally gone. I just have such a fear all the time and it’s niggling away at me. Going to try hypnosis next, see if they can trance it out of me.

But I am trying hard. I’m trying not to let it worry me any more than it does already. I’m trying to cope. It’s just no-one tells you it’s going to be this hard, and no one ever tells you that you go through this. Well I’m telling you now. You will. It’s ain’t funny. But I’m going to battle it with every medication going because I’ve had quite enough of it ruining my life.

The Perimenopause and Me

Firefly Halogen Table Top Heater from Primrose

So glad it’s finally getting warmer and I can ditch sitting inside for sitting out in the garden, pimms in hand, music playing doing a little writing, soaking up the rays and vitamin D with abundance, but as much as I love it during the day, I do hate it when the sun finally goes behind the clouds and it starts getting a bit too nippy. I can handle it the majority of the time by throwing a shawl over me and carrying on but it’s always nice to actually have something to keep you warm rather than having to layer up just to enjoy the garden.

We have for the last 7 years had a gas table top heater, or should I say, we had one 7 years ago which ultimately broke the first year and then the replacement which arrived the next year has lasted up until last Summer when the top bent so much that you had to sit in a certain place which was generally behind wherever you sat to get some heat from it. I also hated the fact that it was gas and inevitably I would always be the one nominated to sit by the side of the gas bottle (oh great fun when you’re scared something will happy).

However when Primrose got in touch and offered me a brand new table top heater I squealed. I chose one by Firefly Heaters after what seemed like an age looking at all the specifications (I would have liked the rotating one but with Pea being so nosey he’d end up burning himself since it sat on the floor) so I plumbed for a beautiful Firefly 2.1kw Halogen Bulb Electric Table Top Infrared Heater with Rattan Base. I chose this one because a) it looks very stylish with the rattan base b) It’s electric (so no more gas bottles) and c) the running cost is 12.6p per hour (not bad if you’re in the garden 4 hours a night using the 900w setting).

I knew I didn’t have to wait long for delivery either as generally it’s next day with Primrose so you can get your items delivered and set up over a weekend then enjoy the fruits of your labour. So delivery came Thursday afternoon and by Thursday evening we were sitting by it whilst enjoying the last of the sunshine.

I was actually quite surprised at the workmanship of the item. Our last table top heater was quite flimsy so we were always quite wary of leaving it on the table as one gust of wind and it would be on it’s side. This one though has a really heavy base that you attach to the stainless steel pole and then place the rattan decorative base over which keeps it super sturdy. A gust of wind won’t knock this one over so I feel a lot more secure with it on the table.

Why Should I Choose An Infrared Heater?

• Safe and simple – no concerns with pressurised gas, gas servicing or storing cylinders

• Silent – electric heater is unobtrusive and subtle

• Clean – no smells and aluminium frame is virtually maintenance-free

• Compact – sleek design is compact and easy to store

• Effective – infrared warms instantly, giving a glow of comfort from the moment it’s switched on

• Efficient – unaffected by draughts

• Economical & environmentally friendly – low running costs, calculated at just 12.6p per hour, which is less than one third the cost of gas heating, great when reducing your carbon footprint.

The other thing that sold it to me is the fact that it’s also a source of light. In the evenings we have been using camping lights but they can be a bit bulky on the table but the halogen in the heater is so bright that we can ditch the camping ones and leave them for when we have a power cut (it’s East Anglia we always seem to get them here – oh the joys of living in London when we stopped having them in the 70s).

The halogen bulb should last 5000 hours which is ample – 208 days and 8 hours which at the rate we use it will means it’ll last quite a long time (I can’t be doing with the calculations as I’m peri-menopausal at present and so calculations annoy me as much as American TV shows right now). And when it does run out the replacement bulbs are also available at Primrose so I’ll get them when I need them.

I can’t rave enough about heaters because on the long evenings when it does get a bit chilly but you don’t want to be cooped up inside when everyone else is enjoying themselves, you can at least bring the heater out and continue living the high life outside (plus I hate being indoors as it’s always so depressing when you have nothing to do apart from look at 4 walls).

Bring on the Summer!

Firefly Halogen Table Top Heater from Primrose