Last night we were getting organised before retiring for the evening, washing up, making drinks etc., and VT was telling me about a fuel that used to be used before diesel.. tractor something or other. He said..so you remember the old parafin that you could buy at Chandlers shops? I said..you will never believe this, but I had been doing a crossword not ten minutes before, and one of the answers was 16d Chandlers.!! How spooky is that? It is a word that neither of us had used for years, and yet it crops up twice in ten minutes..Weird!
Weekend things were normal, the crosswords yesterday quite easy for a change, not too much looking up on the computer.
Had an appointment at the Diabetic clinic today at 1.0'clock. Very awkward timing, I normally have morning appointments, but they seem to have changed things. This might be because they have moved the old diabetic centre from the now shut down Walton Hospital, to the very built on Aintree Hospital. Multi Storey car park at £2 a pop!. Brand new spanking new diabetes centre. Electronic doors, massive foyer, white and blue paintwork and ceiling lights with a lovely blue lighting area around the reception area.
Still...the same amount of waiting.. still the place where you get weighed and have your blood pressure done, and your blood taken like a cupboard!! if anything, smaller than the one at Walton.. Nobody moving very much, people walking about aimlessly it seems, and people left waiting like lumps. Just the same as Walton except with pretty lights! There is one Dr there i was particularly dreading..I got him once at Walton and never again..talk about slow/dead stop..he comes out of his room and glides about with no purpose..and sees about one patient to everyone elses six..he is a professor too...dread to think what his lectures are like.
Anyway...missed him this time.Saw quite a nice young asian chap who was fine really, didn't talk to his computer much. Told me to see the chiropodist, which I should do really, and made another appointment for a years time!! Lost weight too, i wish I had had those crisps and a drink on friday night now. Just the renal one in about three weeks and thats it for a bit.
Poor VT, he is so patient driving me around, he made a lovely omelette for lunch today, which we had to have really early before we went.
I shall treat him to a coffee somewhere this week.
Came back to find a letter from John and Ann in Perth. He had received the CD's of The Goons, and enclosed some photos of their house which had its roof blown off in a big storm in february,,on his birthday as it happened.
Tonight we are having:
The remains of the pizza that we usually have for lunch on a Monday,
Potato and agg salad
potato salad for moi and Rice salad for VT.
Monday, 28 February 2011
Friday, 25 February 2011
Oh I Wish...
VT loaded this yesterday, and I thought it was just a beautiful calm image.
I was better at the technology of life. We seem to be surrounded by it so much these days,and learning how to do things does not come easily to me I'm afraid. I remember the "Baker" days in school, where we would spend all day trying to cover some aspects of computering. I wasn't on my own by any means, and most of the trainers were really dreadful to be honest. You would go wrong, and they would lean over you and press a few buttons, and say "there you go"m and you hadn't a clue what they had done.
I did learn a lot after I left school, mainly by using websites I was interested in, and I can do some basic things, like post a photo, send emails use forums etc., but i lag behind when it comes to the more difficult procedures. Facebook leaves me floundering to a large extent though, it is quite hard I find getting anywhere on that. You can..poke someone!! send a private message?? post on a wall!! post on someone elses wall etc., etc., It's a whole new language. No wonder the children of today are proceeding so quickly, it must be easier when taught in school. Remember the good old days of exercise books and pens? I can even go back as far as slates!! I can!! the little school which was in a house (small) round the corner from where we live, we were all taught in one room, and we used to use slates to learn writing. Darn good school it was too.
We went off to ASDA this morning. We don't go there very often, because it is a bit of a journey. VT bought some petrol on the way.. I told him to stock up a bit if it is going up. so gave him £40!!!!!!! Good grief, that only half filled his tank!!!! Good job we don't do a lot of driving.
Stocked up in ASDA, and got the things for the weekend. Quite busy, and a woman at the checkout with a terrible cough.. Hope it isn't swine flu!! That seems to be on the wane now, it isnt't in the news any more.It is all about Libya at the moment.
Tonight we are having:
Fishless fingers
Chips ( a treat and only 200grms)
mushy peas for VT and green beans for moi.
Tartare sauce.
Thursday, 24 February 2011
The Sun is Shining...On the Dust!!
Woke up this morning to a bright sunny day for a nice change. We hadn't made any plans to go anywhere, so i started moving things around a bit. By things..I mean stuff which is left lying around and makes the house untidy. Neither of us are naturally tidy people, with VT being marginally worse..well maybe a lot worse!. he has flat surfaceitis. He cannot see a flat surface without putting something on it! Consequently it all piles up, and needs major clear out every now and again. Tables, chairs, up the stairs all has stuff on them If i leave the ironing board out long enough, that gets covered as well. Can't complain though, when he brings me a cup of coffee every morning, and goes up to put the electric blanket every evening, plus hundreds of other thoughtful things he does every day.
We caught a glimpse of a property show this lunchtime, where a young couple were looking for a property for £430,000!!!! These property shows are dreadful, they never show the reality of looking for a first place to live with a tiny deposit and a mortgage they can't really afford, or are scraping by to meet. We were so lucky in that we have never had a mortgage, our little house was the one that belonged to my mum and dad, and dad left it to me when he died. must have saved us thousands over the years. I keep telling VT he married an heiress!! It's so tough for kids these days, but they do seem to want everything at once some of them. Jane seems to be stuck in the rental market. To us it seems like dead money, but she says it is too expensive to buy where she lives.
She rang up last night, thrilled because she has got an interview at salford for Radiology for a deferred year. She had got a rejection letter from them a while ago, but this was an email inviting her for intervciew. That's really good news for hershe does interview well because she has plenty to say for herself, so maybe she will get on that course.
Tonight we are having:
pasta with Spinach and Ricotta Sauce,
A little bit of garlic bread
Mixed green vegetables to go with.
We caught a glimpse of a property show this lunchtime, where a young couple were looking for a property for £430,000!!!! These property shows are dreadful, they never show the reality of looking for a first place to live with a tiny deposit and a mortgage they can't really afford, or are scraping by to meet. We were so lucky in that we have never had a mortgage, our little house was the one that belonged to my mum and dad, and dad left it to me when he died. must have saved us thousands over the years. I keep telling VT he married an heiress!! It's so tough for kids these days, but they do seem to want everything at once some of them. Jane seems to be stuck in the rental market. To us it seems like dead money, but she says it is too expensive to buy where she lives.
She rang up last night, thrilled because she has got an interview at salford for Radiology for a deferred year. She had got a rejection letter from them a while ago, but this was an email inviting her for intervciew. That's really good news for hershe does interview well because she has plenty to say for herself, so maybe she will get on that course.
Tonight we are having:
pasta with Spinach and Ricotta Sauce,
A little bit of garlic bread
Mixed green vegetables to go with.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Bank of Mum and Dad...
Very grey day today, drizzly and dripping. We were going to go out today for some fresh air, but one look at the weather and we dicided not to. Then the phone rang..our best daughter had been to the hospital for her injections+, and was on the way home on the bus, so rang us up. The injections are in her back and in between her shoulder blades. She said that she was held up because they have lost her notes, but they did them anyway.
I was telling her about the trolleys in the new hospital we went to on friday. All newly refurbished, and up to date, and the trolleys with the patient files were behind the receptionists, and labelled EYES in great big letters!!
Anyway, she is pennioless at the moment, has been off work because of the shoulder problem, and only on sickness benefit, so no money for her rent so she was tapping the bank of Mum and Dad.
So, we ended up going out anyway. We had to go to my bank in Formby because a checque wouldn't have cleared by the first when her rent is due. We drove round the car spaces about three times, no luck, into the car park at the back, no luck there so had to drive round that again as well. This is only a piddly little village , not a great big town either!! Anyway, got one at the second attempt, so went over to the bank. Got some out of the hole in the wall and gave a cheque also, so that should help her out. Can't say I was still expecting to bail her out at the age of 27..but hey there you go.
VT was getting a bit crabby with the driving and wouldn't go to Costa because there was a big crowd of kids outside..he mutters.."Where do they get the money for Costa Coffees from?" i said bank of Mum and Dad..which is where we came in!!
Tonight we are having:
Steak and mushroom pie
little roast potatoes 8oz
Mixed vegetables
Mushrrom gravy.
I was telling her about the trolleys in the new hospital we went to on friday. All newly refurbished, and up to date, and the trolleys with the patient files were behind the receptionists, and labelled EYES in great big letters!!
Anyway, she is pennioless at the moment, has been off work because of the shoulder problem, and only on sickness benefit, so no money for her rent so she was tapping the bank of Mum and Dad.
So, we ended up going out anyway. We had to go to my bank in Formby because a checque wouldn't have cleared by the first when her rent is due. We drove round the car spaces about three times, no luck, into the car park at the back, no luck there so had to drive round that again as well. This is only a piddly little village , not a great big town either!! Anyway, got one at the second attempt, so went over to the bank. Got some out of the hole in the wall and gave a cheque also, so that should help her out. Can't say I was still expecting to bail her out at the age of 27..but hey there you go.
VT was getting a bit crabby with the driving and wouldn't go to Costa because there was a big crowd of kids outside..he mutters.."Where do they get the money for Costa Coffees from?" i said bank of Mum and Dad..which is where we came in!!
Tonight we are having:
Steak and mushroom pie
little roast potatoes 8oz
Mixed vegetables
Mushrrom gravy.
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Everyday Musings...
of an ordinary life I suppose. Everyday, mostly i do a little account of things that happen in our house, or the neighbourhood or in the family. I actually started it on the 27th June 2007, the day we began a healthy eating programme, and coincidentally, the same day that Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. He didn't last as long as our Healthy Eating programme, and although we are at a sort of plateau with that, we are doing fine.
I notice in the Daily mail for the last couple of days Sarah brown has been publishing her diary of her time in 10 Downing Street. Very interesting, but I suppose in a situation like that you are bound to have an interesting life meeting interesting people. She writes today of her meeting with George Clooney..now that's something to write about.Wouldn't mind meeting him!
brighter today, so VT let the little cat from next door out. He said it chased him down to the paper shop, and sat on a gate post waiting for him to come back. He has been looking after it for about nine weeks now, and it has got really used to him. I hope she looks after it when she comes back, but life will be very difficult for her as it is.
Seems to be half term down south this week. No Ken Bruce on the radio two, or Jeremy Vine either. You get used to the same people in the mornings, can't be doing with Vanessa Feltz and her high pitched voice..too shouty for me.
Watched a bit of This Morning while doing the big pile of ironing this morning, which is not something we do , but i can't hear the radio, so like the noise. Items on fashion, showing very expensive clothes..nothing from the high street, or Bon Marche where I shop!!! I do get nice stuff from QVC though, they have some good American names like Quacker Factory. One jacket they were loojking at this morning was £149.99 !!! obscene!
Tonight we are having:
Not sure actually, Something from the freezer with assorted veggies.
I notice in the Daily mail for the last couple of days Sarah brown has been publishing her diary of her time in 10 Downing Street. Very interesting, but I suppose in a situation like that you are bound to have an interesting life meeting interesting people. She writes today of her meeting with George Clooney..now that's something to write about.Wouldn't mind meeting him!
brighter today, so VT let the little cat from next door out. He said it chased him down to the paper shop, and sat on a gate post waiting for him to come back. He has been looking after it for about nine weeks now, and it has got really used to him. I hope she looks after it when she comes back, but life will be very difficult for her as it is.
Seems to be half term down south this week. No Ken Bruce on the radio two, or Jeremy Vine either. You get used to the same people in the mornings, can't be doing with Vanessa Feltz and her high pitched voice..too shouty for me.
Watched a bit of This Morning while doing the big pile of ironing this morning, which is not something we do , but i can't hear the radio, so like the noise. Items on fashion, showing very expensive clothes..nothing from the high street, or Bon Marche where I shop!!! I do get nice stuff from QVC though, they have some good American names like Quacker Factory. One jacket they were loojking at this morning was £149.99 !!! obscene!
Tonight we are having:
Not sure actually, Something from the freezer with assorted veggies.
Monday, 21 February 2011
Murky Monday...
Not a nice day to wake up to today at all. Quite grey and drizzly and nothing much doing at all. Nothing growing yet, and certainly no signs of the green shoots of recovery. The little cat next door VT says went out for about five minutes then hung around waiting to be let in again. Even though the house is cold it's better than being outside i suppose. Our two have been out very little, they both know which side their bread is buttered on.
We went out to Crosby to get our weekly things.The fields on the way are still very soggy looking, with a few "lakes" jere and there.Noticed the book bus in Little crosby as we passed through, I wonder how long they will keep that going for? It comes to our village on a Saturday morning, and it doesn't seem to get many people visiting it. I used to use it a lot when Jane was small, but we tend to go to the big one in Waterloo now, and renew our books online too. We don't go to the library that often nowadays, because we tend to get a load of books out, and that keeps us going for ages.
I remember the days when I used to go to the library on a Saturday morning on the train, and get three books out of the children's section. If you got a new "Famous Five" that you hadn't read, oh the thrill of it. You used to be able to get three fiction and one non fiction book, and the non fiction was always something you didn't really want. I would much rather have had another Secret Seven book. We never had bought books in our house..books were obtained from the library, and that was it. Completely changed now of course, the house is full of books.
Tonight we are having:
Mozzarella nd pesto escalope
Baby baked potatoes
Roasted squash and sweet potato
Mushroom sauce.
We went out to Crosby to get our weekly things.The fields on the way are still very soggy looking, with a few "lakes" jere and there.Noticed the book bus in Little crosby as we passed through, I wonder how long they will keep that going for? It comes to our village on a Saturday morning, and it doesn't seem to get many people visiting it. I used to use it a lot when Jane was small, but we tend to go to the big one in Waterloo now, and renew our books online too. We don't go to the library that often nowadays, because we tend to get a load of books out, and that keeps us going for ages.
I remember the days when I used to go to the library on a Saturday morning on the train, and get three books out of the children's section. If you got a new "Famous Five" that you hadn't read, oh the thrill of it. You used to be able to get three fiction and one non fiction book, and the non fiction was always something you didn't really want. I would much rather have had another Secret Seven book. We never had bought books in our house..books were obtained from the library, and that was it. Completely changed now of course, the house is full of books.
Tonight we are having:
Mozzarella nd pesto escalope
Baby baked potatoes
Roasted squash and sweet potato
Mushroom sauce.
Sunday, 20 February 2011
It's The weekend...
Don't they come round quickly, here it is the last days before return to school after the half term holidays. I used to hate that time, the feeling of dread before you went back to the rigours of exam work etc.The rush to cram things into the last couple of days, and the horrible early mornings which I really used to hate.
It is truly lovely not having the pressure of all that, and to be able to do what you want.
Saturday was cold again with snow in some areas of the country..it must be awful to live somewhere like buxton, they are always in the news with blocked roads. Even colder today Sunday..VT just nipped out to crosby to get a few things he wanted, the cats are nmainly stay at homes, curled up in one or other of their places in the house. Next doors cat went out when he went to Crosby but soon wanted to go back in again. When she came back last weekend she turned the heating off which was only on very low, and VT says it is really cold in there. However it is inside and safe and a lot warmer than it would be outside. Not as lucky as our two though poor little thing.
We did the washing today, and the crosswords this afternoon. They were a bit tricky today actually, mine had a racecourse theme, and one of the clues was exactly the same which is odd. The name of an opera singer who was born in New Zealand. Well who could forget Dame Kiri singing at Charles and Dianas wedding in that hat with all the feathers on? What a spaectacle! VT had to look up her name because we weren't sure that it was Te kanawa or Ta kanawa..it was the former. he found a quote from her which said that Susan Boyle was a Whizz Bang performer..and Andrea bocelli wasn't a proper opera singer. I thought she was a bit niocer than that!.
Tonight we are having:
our Pizza with our new batch of tomato sauce
Mushrooms meatfree sausage and pineapple
potato salad for me and rice salad for Vt
egg and potato salad.
It is truly lovely not having the pressure of all that, and to be able to do what you want.
Saturday was cold again with snow in some areas of the country..it must be awful to live somewhere like buxton, they are always in the news with blocked roads. Even colder today Sunday..VT just nipped out to crosby to get a few things he wanted, the cats are nmainly stay at homes, curled up in one or other of their places in the house. Next doors cat went out when he went to Crosby but soon wanted to go back in again. When she came back last weekend she turned the heating off which was only on very low, and VT says it is really cold in there. However it is inside and safe and a lot warmer than it would be outside. Not as lucky as our two though poor little thing.
We did the washing today, and the crosswords this afternoon. They were a bit tricky today actually, mine had a racecourse theme, and one of the clues was exactly the same which is odd. The name of an opera singer who was born in New Zealand. Well who could forget Dame Kiri singing at Charles and Dianas wedding in that hat with all the feathers on? What a spaectacle! VT had to look up her name because we weren't sure that it was Te kanawa or Ta kanawa..it was the former. he found a quote from her which said that Susan Boyle was a Whizz Bang performer..and Andrea bocelli wasn't a proper opera singer. I thought she was a bit niocer than that!.
Tonight we are having:
our Pizza with our new batch of tomato sauce
Mushrooms meatfree sausage and pineapple
potato salad for me and rice salad for Vt
egg and potato salad.
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