Catch up post.

I'm spending the day worrying, my daughter is back in court yet again because of her ex. Her barrister and the police don't think she should attend but her ex's barrister has insisted. As a compromise she will attend the court but not appear in open court. Her ex is just too dangerous and unstable. This is giving me deja vu as my barrister insisted on escorting me to my car after my divorce and she was right to as my first husband was stood by my car. My barrister blocked his car in so I was able to get into my car and escape safely. So whilst I'm worrying I though I'd do a catch up post.

1) I've finally got the living room how I want it, I've tried a few different ways of positioning the furniture and I finally have one that suits me. The room appears bigger and last night for the first time since I moved in I sat in the living room until 10 o'clock.

2) I've realised why sometimes my neighbour's black cat is friendly and sometimes not, it is two different cats, belonging to two different neighbours, both cats are the same colour with the same markings.

3) I have a raft of letters from the hospital, all are asking me to phone them, i can't do this so I'm saving the letters until my daughter has time to look at them.

4) I'm having problems with my phone, this time it is Steve that is causing the problems. I will get it sorted next week.

5) I've ordered and received a packet of wild flowers seeds to scatter in my garden and in my daughter's garden.

6) I've been to the pub for lunch, I was a bit unsure after the rudeness of the women at the next table last time I visited, but, big girls knickers on and off I went. I had chicken and thoroughly enjoyed it.

7) I couldn't eat all the chicken so I wrapped up the last piece in my napkin and put it in my pocket, I explained to Beano that he could have it later for his tea. 

8) I take Beano's blanket with me when I go to the pub, he understands that this means he must sit quietly whilst I eat. I was drinking my coffee when I realised that Beano was no longer sat on his blanket. The little toad had snuck over and taken the chicken out of my pocket and snaffled it!

Lazy day.

I've had, for me, a busy couple of days, I'd been given some new to me furniture. I accepted it, but left it in the hall whilst I decided where to put it.

I mulled it over and then made a decision on where the items should go. As my bungalow is quite small moving the furniture was a bit like one of those plastic puzzles with little squares, where you have to move everything around to get things where you want them.

It took me a few days to move stuff as I have had a couple of hospital appointments as did my daughter. Which meant I was walking to hers to babysit. So the furniture moving was done in fits and starts.

I've now got everything where I want it, including the microwave, which I used this morning. So now I'm having a lazy day, Beano has had his walks but apart from that I'm sitting down and continuing to read The,Other Bennett Sister. I'm thoroughly enjoying the book and have seen enough clips on YouTube to be able to visualise Ella Bruccoleri, Ruth Jones and others in their respective parts.

Hospital again.

Same hospital, different body part.

This time it was a visit to the audiologist, my goodness what a difference.

I had a slightly dicky tummy and wondered if it was somethng I'd eaten, I think from the rapid improvement it was actually just worry after the less than helpful visit two days earlier.

Yet again my daughter had to juggle my appointment with the needs of her six children and five or them came with us. They were all very well behaved.

The audiologist was excellent, made sure I understood her and explained my options. My hearing levels have decreased considerably and I will need a different style of hearing aids. They will be ready in four weeks!

After the hospital appointment we went to the supermarket, I bought a pack of cupcakes for the children as a thank you for their good behaviour.

Tomorrow I'm sitting with them as my daughter has a hospital appointment.

Microwave

A neighbour knocked on my door today and asked if I could use a  microwave.

I assured him that I could and he brought it round shortly afterwards, for some reason he had two.

It was not new but was very clean and I'm very grateful, it will save me dirtying a saucepan when I make beans on toast for my lunch. I will also use it to make my morning porridge, though I think I'll need a tall measuring jug to make that.

The microwave is currently sat on top of my son's dishwasher, tomorrow I shall spend some time reorganising the stuff on my kitchen work surfaces to make room for the microwave.

Shambles

 My hospital appointment y'day was a complete shit show. I attended because I'd had text reminder of the appointment. 

The letter I should have received was sent to the incorrect address so I didn't get it. 

Despite this being explained repeatedly to the staff they kept referring to the letter.

The hospital I attended is small and relatively quiet, I also found it disorganised and confusing.

I repeatedly explained that I was deaf but people still insisted on not facing me to aid lip reading.

We were sent to wait in the wrong area and I nearly missed my appointment.

I had my blood pressure taken, I requested a larger blood pressure cuff because I have fat arms but my request was ignored until my daughter insisted. The person taking my blood pressure swapped the cuff but behaved like a sulky child who had been reprimanded!

I hate to think what would have happened if my daughter hadn't been there to advocate for me.

Shoulder creepies

I've suffered from shoulder creepies for years, it feels like hundreds of ants are marching up from my shoulder blades. I've had this since I was in my late 40's at least. I mentioned them to my Dr years ago when I was invited to a well woman appointment regarding the menopause. The creepies started a few months before my periods stopped and I wondered if there was a connection. 

The Dr assured me there was no connection, she also assured me that although I hadn't had a period for about 6 months I was not starting the  menopause, it was probably stress related and that my periods would no doubt restart at some point, they never did and I'm now in my 70s.

Recently I've started itching, again it started with my shoulders and has moved down my arms. My shins also itch, I use an oatmeal moisturiser that helps a little but it's bloody irritating.

That isn't a 'me' problem!

I've just been shouted at by a delivery driver, he was delivering a heavy box and went to the wrong address first, he got yelled at because he was at the wrong house so when he got to me he yelled at me!

I then had a very nasty, ranty text from Steve saying I haven't cancelled the direct debits on the joint account, I'll leave it a couple of days and then check it. I'm not sure how he'd know as he doesn't have a card for that account.

I took myself to the pub for lunch and had sausage and mash and a coffee, Beano was very good and sat quietly on his blanket whilst I ate. The two women, who appeared to be around my age, at the next table were very disapproving and kept glaring at me, I've no idea if they didn't like me, my clothes or my dog or maybe they didn't approve of a lone female visiting a pub. Whatever, I was happy to ignore them and eat my lunch.

Most of the time I'm pretty thick skinned and if I can't understand what I've done to cause their upset I see no reason why I should let their behaviour upset me.