I hesitate to write this (sorry Busy -Lizzie 🙁) but we have had some very good news. Mr C has had a painful hip for a few years now. He can still walk ok (10 miles a day in Athens) but takes ibuprofen to take the edge of it. He has had a year of trying physiotherapy but its not been much help. He went to the GP mid Sept, saw the surgeon for a consultation yesterday, and is now booked in for a hip replacement a week on Monday. All NHS, no private. Surgeon says they have a hospital dedicated to orthopaedic surgery and they are keen to crack on through their waiting lists. Shows the NHS at its very best. But also shows that there is a bit of a postcode lottery going on.
I'm glad for your OH @chicky, he's lucky. I don't think East Anglia has a very good record where hospitals are concerned from what I've read. Huge queues of ambulances waiting to unload outside A&E. OH's surgeon said he'd put OH on the fast track list with the cancer patients, wait is 3 months. Fairly urgent is 6 months, normal list is over a year.
Washing, towels, is on the line blowing in the wind.
May do more grass sowing this afternoon.
Back still aches, knee is better.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon all, good news for Chicky's OH but diabolical news re Busy-Lizzie's OH. That sounds like mis-management on a grand scale.
Didn't sleep at all well, my right shoulder is very painful which is affecting a nerve right down my arm. I'm taking regular painkillers but feel like a zombie today. In an effort to distract myself, I went out and dug up some perennials near a rose bush which were spreading too far. Not sure if they are campanula or platycodon, tall, blue bells on single stems? Rosette spreading leaves. Probably shouldn't have done it.
I'm also fighting my laptop, I've lost the right hand side of the page so can't use the scroll down bar or minimise the page, goodness knows how I've done that, very exasperating. Looked online for help but don't understand it. Oh well.
Hope DD gets back to the right airport! And Dove has a good journey home.
Well here we are, not on the river Rhone but on our way to Chalon sur Saone, we will be there tomorrow and taking in the delights of the Beaune wine region. Bit of a bad start tho our Eurostar train was nearly 3hours late so we missed the connection to get us down to Lyon. Didn't get to ship till after 10pm so very grumpy by the time we were fed and watered. It can only improve from now on. Regards to all.
Arrived at our usual very comfortable hotel near Woburn. OH is just fetching our overnight bags from the car … I’ve had a pee 😳😅 and put my feet up.
The journey was good … bright sunshine all the way … none of the promised heavy rain at all. The traffic was pretty heavy but there were no real problems … just some slow bits for roadworks … so door to door in seven hours plus a half hour stop for lunch.
Oh, and we’ve seen two buzzards and five red kites … all the kites in Bedfordshire … and the colours in the hedgerows and banks are really building up … the countryside is beginning to look gorgeous. 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry the Eurostar was late @Allotment Boy, it's so annoying when delays like that happen. Quite puts me trying to get away for a holiday.
Glad you made it to your hotel @Dovefromabove, enjoy your dinner tonight. Forgot to say last weekend that we saw two red kites at Lacock, that's the nearest we've seen them to us. We are hoping they'll soon be overhead on the hills although I fear for the buzzards and smaller birds round here.
I think you're right @Busy-Lizzie, it's that Campanula.
Kites eat mainly carrion so the small birds will not be in danger from them. Buzzards and kites co-exist perfectly happily near us … they don’t compete for food so I can’t see a problem there either … also buzzards are bigger built than kites.
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Washing, towels, is on the line blowing in the wind.
May do more grass sowing this afternoon.
Back still aches, knee is better.
Didn't sleep at all well, my right shoulder is very painful which is affecting a nerve right down my arm. I'm taking regular painkillers but feel like a zombie today. In an effort to distract myself, I went out and dug up some perennials near a rose bush which were spreading too far. Not sure if they are campanula or platycodon, tall, blue bells on single stems? Rosette spreading leaves. Probably shouldn't have done it.
I'm also fighting my laptop, I've lost the right hand side of the page so can't use the scroll down bar or minimise the page, goodness knows how I've done that, very
exasperating. Looked online for help but don't understand it. Oh well.
Hope DD gets back to the right airport! And Dove has a good journey home.
Bit of a bad start tho our Eurostar train was nearly 3hours late so we missed the connection to get us down to Lyon. Didn't get to ship till after 10pm so very grumpy by the time we were fed and watered. It can only improve from now on.
Regards to all.
I hope you enjoy France @Allotment Boy.
I've done very little today.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad you made it to your hotel @Dovefromabove, enjoy your dinner tonight. Forgot to say last weekend that we saw two red kites at Lacock, that's the nearest we've seen them to us. We are hoping they'll soon be overhead on the hills although I fear for the buzzards and smaller birds round here.
I think you're right @Busy-Lizzie, it's that Campanula.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The new man in my life. His name is Gordon McCoo and I love him.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.