Upside down Day!!

I had an appointment to get a blood test at the Formby clinic at 2.05. So we decided that we might as well go and get our shopping after I had been there. The Formby clinic is only five minutes away from Waitrose, so it made sense to get everything done at once. So we had an early sandwich lunch and went off there.
Never been to that one before, central waiting area, and then your name is called. Waited about five minutes then Mr. Dracula called me in. Think I'll go to Thornton next time!! HaHa..Talk about digging around..and then some. I am supposed to use my right arm for blood samples and leave the left arm clear, so he started on the right. Nothing! So he went round almost in a circle and eventually said I'll have to do the other arm. Had a bit of a dig round there and got his sample eventually. Funny with blood takers or Phlebotomists..some just seem to have the knack and get it straight away, others don't. Think it's to do with confidence. Two blobs of cotton wool and two even more horrible strips of the sticky plaster that they use and we went off to Waitrose.
Vin had his list so we didn't forget anything this time. Still feel that I came out of there having spent a lot more than I normally do. There is no getting round it, it is an expensive shop, I wouldn't like to shop there all the time. I wish it was still the Morrisons store. Home for a coffee then a bit of time to ourselves. I come up here and Vin does his paperwork and finances etc.,

On TV lately there have been a rash of programmes about 9/11. There was an item on the Jeremy Vine show this morning about where you were when it happened. i can remember exactly..we were waiting for Emma my hairdesser to come and colour my hair so were watching the news. Vin has always watched the American news channels which are often more interesting. They were showing the Twin Towers just after the first plane had hit one. Then as we watched there appeared in the sky what looked like a little light plane aiming and then hitting into the second tower. of course we learned later that the plane was in fact a Jumbo Jet..full of passengers. Then the terrible events unfolded.
A couple of programmes over the last two or three nights were really well done. One was a programme about the children of 9/11 and how they had been affected. Of course 10 years on many of them are now young men and women and they were affected in many different ways. That was quite emotinal to watch. Then there was one about twins on Tuesday night. Apparently 46 pairs of twins lost a twin in the disaster. One was a pair of firefighters. Zachary and Andre..Zachary had been sent back to his firehouse to collect oxygen tanks and his twin Andre went into the tower to save people. Then the Towers collapsed and he was lost. His was one of the very few bodies to be found 11 days later. You really felt the separation of the surviving twin. One said that everyone understands when a husband or wife is lost but not a twin..and yet it is like losing your other half. Very well done docummentary.
Such a lot of people affected and so many familiesand you have to wonder Why on Earth it happened.

Tonight we are having:
Vin is having his free cheese and onion pasty from greggs with some beans and chips.
I am having an egg salad with a slice of quiche from the freezer.
Plus a bread and butter pudding that Vin fancied from Waitrose.