I'm Slipping!!!

Oh dear! It has been a while since I have been on here. Mainly because I have been backwards and forwards to appointments for quite a few weeks so squeezing a few min utes here and there to do my blog has been a bit awkward. The main priority has been to get John and Ann's letter so we can send their parcel off to Australia.The traffic reports on the radio at the moment are terrible. Flood warnings and road closures all over the North of England and Scotland, terrible ones in Cumbria with rivers bursting their baqnks and people being evacuated from their homes. The Forth Road Bridge is also closed due to faults in the structure. This will cause a 50 mile detour!!!! Those poor people who will have to make that will suffer for the next goodness knows how long.
Well for the first time in a long time we are extremely well prepared for Christmas trees ready, decorations up and most of the dinner things bought. It's actually quite nice to be all ready.

This is my Christmas present from Jane, I LOVE hime, he has such a beautiful smile and when he is lit up with a night /tea light he is gorgeous. It is a Yankee candle one and she also bought us a Yankee candle Advent calendar which has a different "flavour" tea light every day that you open. 

Getting Christmas dinner number one ready and very nice it was too. At least Jane got her bread sauce which she adores and her roasties. Her and Vin had a celebration roast, and I did a meat style roaqst which in the end we all shared and the Yorkshire puds to go with it.  I'm going to do thaat again for CD number two.
Very sad news this last week, Jane rang us up on her way home one night to say that one of her group of friends from Uni, who she would have been working with at M,R.I. had died. She was a lovely girl a few years older than Jaane, and we had met her at the graduation in July. Jane has a lovely photo of them together really lovely smiley photo of them in their caps and gowns. She had a smiley husband and two absolutely gorgeous little boys, only small about six and seven Jane thinks. That poor family over Christmas. Their group is just devastated.They were a very close group and all looked after each other. 
Anyway, I shall make it my business to keep this up better this year, I admit I have been a bit lax the last couple of months, not through my fault totally. 

The Early Christmas!

this year we had somewhat of an early christmas. Jane is working over the Christmas holiday or some of it anyway so wouldn't be able to get home for a real break. She did have a period in the middle of November she would be able to get home for three days so we had a Christmas then.
it was lovely actually, we put the decorations up, and the lights outside and all of our little bits and bobs . Got her presents and other bits of treats, and we had a great day. Our Christmas dinner was nice this year too. I made a "meat loaf and Vin had bought a linda McCartney celebration roast which he and Jane had. little roast potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce carrots and sweetcorn for V&J
Our pudding was chocolate brownie with thick cream and raspberries for vin and me and ben and Jerry's ice cream for Jane.  Yummy.
Yesterday I should have gone for a podiatry appointment at Aintree but couldn't go becaus  I had a bit of an upset with the colostomy so was bed bound, that appt was cancelled and another made for early in December. 

This is my Christmas present from Jane. A gorgeous little yankee candle snowman with a nightlight in him. Isn't he beautiful..I LOVE him, he just makes me smile. Thankyou JaneXXXX

Phew!!!!

ince the nursey at Aintree had done the dressing really badly I was actually quite happy to do that. Lovely nurst at netherton, Did everything blood pressure checked for pressure sores etc., and redid my dressin beautifully, she could do with teaching the nursey in Aintree some lessons in bandaging actually. 
Posted off my Bauble swap yesterday Monday 23rd Nov.  and put together for sending to Australia. Just have to finish off their letter, always a bit late with that.. Never mind it will get there. 

Definitely Wintry!!!

No appointments today so decided to go out somewhere..ended up in Tesco. We needed a few top up bits and bobs and thought we'd get those then go for a Costa afterwards. I went round with the support of a trolley instead of my wheels, so did a little bit of browsing as well :) Got some things for our Christmas like Christmas cake slices and stollen slices which Vin loves. Also got a few things fr the fridge so I have some items to select from. Make a change from omelettes!
The weather is horrible today, When we came home and were having our lunch it was hailstoning very heavily,Really battering the windows, glad we beat that. Would have been a good day for soup except that we were both full of gingerbread lattees so only wanted a light lunch.
Jane just rang up a little while ago and said it was cold there, but no hail as yet. FB entries from the family in Australia showing bright sunshine and blue skies and lovely beach scenes..seems odd for Christmas weather!.

Cheers to you all in Oz!Wish my hair was like this again..it is so thin nowadays despite all of the vitamins!!!!

Hello My Friend.. Nice To Be Here Again :)

Well..back again.. Been a while. Started on August bank holiday Sunday with a with a badly infected toe which required hospital treatment and one thing led to another and seven weeks in hospital!¬!! two weeks in Aintree then removalto the royal in liverpool for removal of said toe, three and aq half weeks including five days in the HDU unit, and finally two weeks in Aintree for two weeks in the rehab ward where they got me on my feet again. Now home for a month and gradually getting mobile again with the help of all the NHS staff and a Zimmer frame a souped up one with wheels called a Delta frame and a ordinary one for inside and upstairs. Hooray..it is great to be home.
Jane has been home for the last three days for HER Christmas!! It was lovely actually. We have all of our trees up, decorations and everything, and we had a Christmas dinner last Tuesday the 18th of November!. She starts her new job on the 1st of December and will be working at Ticketmaster on Christmas so couldn't get home.

Ooo0psw clicked on the wrong picture..it was meant to be a pic of the "Christmas" table. never mind I'll get it right one day!. Jane took some greatt pics on her camera, just waiting for her to upload them for us. We took her back to her car which she parked at Aintree while she was here.Visit was a success I think. poor Vin is ready for a rest now, he has worked like a Trojan over the last few weeks getting everything ready. Bless him XXXX

My Goodness! I Actually Went Out !!!!

Yep..Actually got out of the house..was beginning to wonder if I was wever going to get out. Got up earlyish because Vin had rung a nu8mber he had seen in the village shop tahat he had seen some days ago. It was for a bloke who was looki9ng for bikes to be recycled, and it so happens that we have had two bikes in our back yard under plastic for about three years if not lon ger! Well he rang back this morning to say he would come and collect them this morning which he did. Hooray..they have gone and the yard looks a lot tidier now. 
I got a pair of trousers yesterday and Bon Marche sent the wrong leg length sending 27" instead of 29" that I always get. So I decided that we wouldd go to maghull to return them and get a Costa there at the same time. Great parking and in I went to the shop to change them. The lady swapped them straight away for a navy pair of the right length. While I was in the shop I also got a pair of slipper socks for Jane when she is at home and a pack of three pairs with cute little cats on them. Hope she likes them! Went into the card shop next door and got a card for John and Ann, then into the pound bakery next to there to get a pakin that I had seen in the window for £1..Can't BEAT THAT.
Our Costas were lovely. Vin had a gingerbread latte with a sweet little mini gingherbread man, and I had a salted caramel capuccinno which was nice but I wouldn't rave over it..his gingerbread one tasted nicer. We shared a pack of wafer biscuits.
Home for lunch and a parcel to be collected from the village shop which was a wrap I had ordered for the coldeer weather. Then the doorbell went..Amazon with the things i had ordered.. a calendar for Jane and some coffee pods to make up the amount needed for free delivery. So a very successful day today :) :) 
Tomorrow i havee an appoint,ent ay yhr pofistry clinic in Litherland to get my foot dressed.
Hey Ho  !!

*I Did Nothing...Vin Bought a Freezer!!

I fully intended to go out today..I really wanted to go and have a loojk at freezers in the shop in Formby, then go for a nice coffee out in the village somewhere, m aybe Cafe Nero...but...
By the time he looked online and rang a coyuple of places up it was getting on for half past eleven so I told ghim to go and buy one then come bck for coffee, therefore I ended up not going anywhere.  So off he went with instructions to buy the Hotpoint one which will be delivered to the shop on Tuesday. At least we will get a freezer for next week. We will then be able to get a bit stocked up for when Jane comes home on the 15th onw.
There was a delivery from Bon marche of some jogging pants but...when I looked at the label the leg length was 227" and I take 29". Grrrr... This means they will have to go back Grrrr. That's a pain, and Vin isn't pleased. He thought I had ordered the wrong size so I had to go online to show him that the website didn't give you an option of leg lengths and it stipulated they were 29" inside leg.
Ah Well!  that was my very boring day today....