Good morning all. The forecast said fine but it has been raining on and off since about midday.
Seniors’ meeting this morning so I have been writing minutes and preparing seating plans for the club’s birthday lunch next week hence my lateness.
Apart from that nothing much happened to me this morning and I have only the excitement of putting the bins out this afternoon to look forward to. I had intended to run the mower over the grass but I suspect a lot of my book will get read instead…
I really am not having the best of weeks healthwise, but still here, which is the important thing.
Hot and sunny this week, with a remarkable absence of young teenagers during these holidays.
The police have been having a crackdown on anti social behaviour locally and seizing the electric scooters the kids tear about on the pavements.
I have Kinga here for 2 hours sorting things out for her holidays next week, my fridge will be restocked and post its left everywhere, tomorrow she is here for 4 hours, doing the fish tanks,banking and even more lists for me to do.
She is a lovely,very caring lady, incredibly organised,but does not have a high opinion of the organisational abilities of men.
I probably deserve it.
TV is incredibly boring at present, football and more football and reality shows with celebrities I haven’t heard of.
Looks like yet another hot and sunny day down here in southern Hampshire. It was supposed to be sunny yesterday, but it was thunder and lightning instead with a cloud burst. Just come back from my walk around a small water course and the levels are seriously low. We could use some serious rain right now.
Today, I’m being taken out for a pub lunch and I suspect I’m going to be tapped up to do photography for a Christening in October, which is not really what I prefer to do for various reasons. But we’ll see.
Meanwhile, my coffee levels are diminishing and time to activate kettle and today, I’ve decided to include a quick phone pick of the scene this morning.
Just call me ‘Robert the Restorer’
This rose was just a potfull of sticks when it came to me for restoration, and in just a few short weeks with some love and attention, look what it’s turned into…
This mornings sweaty walk/jog went ahead as planned, and I’ve happened on a great training method for someone with a dicky ticker…For me anyway…
I can no longer jog for more than 100 seconds at a very relaxed pace.
But a body gets used to jogging at an ‘Old Blokes Pace’ and the benefits are reduced.
So based on interval training, which is excellent training, I only run for 50 seconds but fast, perhaps just half a dozen reps each weekly session and see how it goes…
A very warm 24 degrees C when I got back home, but yesterday it managed to climb up to
33 degrees C…With some cloud cover today I don’t think it will reach 30…
No rain here Bruce for quite sometime, and with the hosepipe ban my lawns are looking like straw…
You are right about the telly Swim, I just watch the street and a couple of old detective dramas while I’m doing the dinner and washing up after.
That’s a great photo Graham, reminds me of Constables ‘The Hay Wain’…
Afternoon all. Tried to ring my Daughter, no signal, didn’t think any more abut it, then later this morning got an FB message from her saying she’s in hospital for tests due to terrible pains in her chest, she said they’ve checked her heart & that’s good, but she is still in pain & waiting for more tests. She is likely, no certain, to be there for ages.
Her Partner will go get her & take her home when she is finished. I just hope it isn’t anything serious, she was complaining of chest pain yesterday but thought it indigestion. She is on certain medication so hope it’s one of those causing it. You never know what side effects drugs can give you, I know from trials & experience. I am worried though, she is my only family now.
Thanks OGF, She is still waiting for results & is fed up. Our hospital has not improved since I was there in A&E all those years ago, well 4 years actually. She has been there for hours now, most of the day. I thought they had got quicker, obviously not.
PS Your rose is very pretty.
So happy to hear they have released her to come home. It could be anything from a pulled muscle to cramping from meds… don’t worry until it’s time. Hugs to you.
Daughter says her chest still hurts & her throat when she tries to swallow, but they couldn’t find anything wrong after the tests she had. She is very tired, was actually taken to the hospital at 3 a.m yesterday, so waiting times not really better now. She is going for a consult to see if our Doctors are better. I think she should have had a scan on her neck & throat area. They only x-rayed her chest. At the hospital they did say what she has wasn’t life threatening. Tell that to someone who can’t eat because swallowing is too painful.
I think our NHS is broken.
