The entire warm sunny day has been spent indoors, receiving or making phone calls and receiving or sending emails. There are a final two emails to send but it is nearly ten pm.
I am about to stroll up the village and watch a fab sunset!
We have W***rse, with L*dl next door, in one direction, and A*da in the other, all about 3/4 mile away, plus Ald* a tiny bit further in a different direction. All are uphill for walking home (but there are Buses).
W***rose is only five minutes walk away and it’s where the bottle bank is ( our new authority doesn’t have glass recycling) so a good excuse to pop in and buy stuff. I am trying to make more use of the stalls in the market square, in an attempt to shop local, though I haven’t quite yet worked put which is the best fruit and veg one. There is also a cheese stall that is testing our commitment to veganism, and we may succumb this weekend. Our main food problem is that none of the supermarkets round here stock the frozen parathas that were a staple of lunches in London. We even drove ten miles to the nearest big T*scos but they didn’t stock them either.
If those parathas are a usual part of stock in the London area (they aren't round here), can you order them to click and collect at any of the supermarkets?
Expotition into London today for a face-to-face hospital appointment for my daughter; new consultant at a different hospital.
Today is my birthday. I have lots of chocolate, books and pink champagne, as well as the small ochre velvet chair I wanted. It is currently in the lounge but it will shortly be in my office so I can sit and read away from my desk.
It's been raining all day here. Clearly FOOD is called for. A jam sponge has just emerged from the oven. ICE CREAM will have to be eaten with it, because I've received the list of supplies Captain Pyjamas needs for September, and among other items, he's supposed to have an empty plastic ice cream tub. It's a sacrifice, but one that I shall force myself to make .
Many happy returns, Heavenlyannie, and postdated good luck,CK! xx
You'd almost think someone didn't want me to get home of an evening; yesterday it was just missing a bus (twice) and today it was the 17:15 being cancelled.*
Grrrrr ...
Now on the 17:35, which is slow (has an extra stop). Swear-words.
* If I'd known it was going to be cancelled I'd have stayed in M&S long enough to buy the handbag that was silently begging me to buy it.
Happy Birthday @Heavenlyannie , hope it's been a good one. Hope you and the kitten aren't too wiped out by your trip to London.
We took ourselves off to local cathedral city today for a mooch. It's changed a lot since I was last there forty years ago, and on the whole for the better. We went on an interesting guided tour of the the ancient part of the place, had lunch in a vegan restaurant (good tea, somewhat dull panini, but at least it was vegan) and fell asleep on the train home. As it is only 30 minutes away on the train, we shall be going back often as there is so much yet to explore.
Haircut this morning. Majority of hair now its natural colour after decades of assiduous dyeing: this turns out to be white. I may get the odd wash in/wash out colourant. Hands up those of us who remember Harmony in its triangular box?
Too hot to go into the garden until late afternoon. Besides which, areas of me hurt from large amounts of weeding yesterday.
Buffalo sausages and cheesy polenta currently in the oven. Dinners for the next while are liable to be oven/microwaved: I don't fancy standing over a hot anything.
Thanks all, it was a good consultant's session - not the proper consultant, but the gatekeeper, who is referring her on to someone who is de facto the EDS specialist. Hallelujah! It was the lack of control of her symptoms when she's already on the what is recommended to be the highest doses of the medications she's on did it, not that she was particularly bad today. Much more like seeing the similar specialist in Sheffield in May 2018, and not like any of the visits elsewhere since.
And she's had her first vaccine, although apparently she spent her time in the tent firmly saying "the allergy clinic says I can have it" repeatedly as they demurred.
Hot sunny afternoon in London, I didn't quite finish the culottes I was making, they still need a waistband and hemming. My daughter did finish the skort she was making, but not the jacket before we left.
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I am about to stroll up the village and watch a fab sunset!
Darn it.
I ate them.
All of them!
Expotition into London today for a face-to-face hospital appointment for my daughter; new consultant at a different hospital.
I'm off shortly for lunch with friends, always a nice occasion.
Today is my birthday. I have lots of chocolate, books and pink champagne, as well as the small ochre velvet chair I wanted. It is currently in the lounge but it will shortly be in my office so I can sit and read away from my desk.
Hippo, birdie, two ewes!
Hippo, birdie, two ewes!
Hippo, birdie, @Heavenlyannie,
Hippo, birdie, two ewes!
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Happy Birthday @Heavenlyannie!
I hope all goes well, Curiosity killed and Kitten! <votive>
It's been raining all day here. Clearly FOOD is called for. A jam sponge has just emerged from the oven. ICE CREAM will have to be eaten with it, because I've received the list of supplies Captain Pyjamas needs for September, and among other items, he's supposed to have an empty plastic ice cream tub. It's a sacrifice, but one that I shall force myself to make
My wife has bought herself a drum carder with that aim in mind.
You'd almost think someone didn't want me to get home of an evening; yesterday it was just missing a bus (twice) and today it was the 17:15 being cancelled.*
Grrrrr ...
Now on the 17:35, which is slow (has an extra stop). Swear-words.
* If I'd known it was going to be cancelled I'd have stayed in M&S long enough to buy the handbag that was silently begging me to buy it.
No matter: I'll be going past again tomorrow ...
We took ourselves off to local cathedral city today for a mooch. It's changed a lot since I was last there forty years ago, and on the whole for the better. We went on an interesting guided tour of the the ancient part of the place, had lunch in a vegan restaurant (good tea, somewhat dull panini, but at least it was vegan) and fell asleep on the train home. As it is only 30 minutes away on the train, we shall be going back often as there is so much yet to explore.
Too hot to go into the garden until late afternoon. Besides which, areas of me hurt from large amounts of weeding yesterday.
Buffalo sausages and cheesy polenta currently in the oven. Dinners for the next while are liable to be oven/microwaved: I don't fancy standing over a hot anything.
A couple of ewes - is that the same as a double-ewe?
Sorry....
And she's had her first vaccine, although apparently she spent her time in the tent firmly saying "the allergy clinic says I can have it" repeatedly as they demurred.
Hot sunny afternoon in London, I didn't quite finish the culottes I was making, they still need a waistband and hemming. My daughter did finish the skort she was making, but not the jacket before we left.