I hope your wait isn't too long @punkdoc. On the News yesterday I saw the waiting list is now over 7 million.
The saga about your tooth @coccinella sounds appalling. I hope you can get something done before too long.
I ran out of garden twine yesterday so we went to the local GC, Bressingham. I bought a pair of shears, 12 cyclamen, a pair of gardeing gloves and 2 sacks of compost. Forgot the twine!
A friend dropped in yesterday with a birthday card, my birthday on Saturday, so I asked them to dinner last night. I'd bought a fillet mignon of pork which was too big for the 2 of us. I made onion, tomato, mushroom and basil tartlets, stuffed fillet of pork cooked in cider with celery, runner beans and potatoes and our friends supplied a strawberry cheesecake.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
You sound very perky, @punkdoc! Looks like you’ve recovered quite well from the first hip op, if you looking forward positively to getting the second one done. Im so sorry that you have been so badly let down, @coccinella. Makes me feel rather ashamed of the profession when I hear stories like this. Thank heavens you have been able to get advice from your cousin, so you can at least do all you can to settle things down until you see the maxfac surgeon. With luck, everything will settle down, and you will be able to enjoy the wedding. My grandchildren have gone off to school, so I am planning to take the bus into Bath and have a nose around for a few hours. Will have changed a lot, I’m sure, since we lived in the area over 20 years ago.
Totally discombobulated. In my own mind I worked out that second op. would be early next year [ if I was lucky ]
Today the surgeon was checking my progress, and we were having a general chat, when he said, I had a cancellation yesterday, for the 5th. of October, do you want it. Apparently I didn't say anything for several moments, so he asked again. So that is sorted then. Moira thinks it is me getting out of going to see the MIL in October, but she is thrilled too.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I'm sure you'll be able to keep your general health in better condition once you can be properly mobile again @punkdoc .
Now, where to begin about yesterday ... as Bro left home for the last time and travelled on his vintage tractor and trailer along the narrow hollow way between the farm and the village church, all his (many) tractors and farm machinery (washed and gleaming) were lined up to pay their respects as, back in the day, a farmer's horses would have done, (and as the Queen's riding pony did) ... a lovely funeral service, helped by well-known hymns having been chosen (Guide me oh thou great redeemer and Love Divine) ... the small church was packed, even tho the morning service was family and close friends only. His children did him proud and the weather was kind. At the farm there was a huge marquee (augmented by the best mobile loos I've ever seen) and a sit down lunch of beautifully roasted beef or sea bream with salads, wine, fizz and a very good lime and mint cooler. In the afternoon we drove to the bigger church in the nearby little market town ... despite it being a bigger church (the family had regularly attended both churches as they shared the same vicar) it was packed and there was also a big screen and sound system and at least 100+ seats outside ... a very similar service, with more well-known hymns (Old Rugged Cross, How Great Thou Art and The Lord is my Shepherd to Crimond) and eulogies from a close friend as well as from the children and a professional soprano sang Rutter's The Lord Bless you and Keep You.
At least 500 folk then went back to the farm (car park attendants on two fields) for canapés and champagne. It was more like The Royal Enclosure at Ascot on Derby Day than a funeral. Oh well, Bro was a very social chap mixing in very elevated circles. An exhausting day ... a Chinese meal and an early night rounded off the day for us.
It goes without saying that my dear @WonkyWomble was a huge support and a complete delight ... I have that in writing from my cousin S, thanking her for getting her comfortably seated and fetching her food, coffee etc for her and generally helping ... S has bad arthritis from some nasty riding injuries and was finding all the standing and walking painful. I am so proud of her, her lovely hub, my remarkable son and of course dear OH ... they made a difficult day bearable and held me together.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
His family lived close to us when we were very young and he my brother were inseparable through their teens and early twenties … despite poor health himself he was there yesterday and gave me so many huge hugs … apparently I haven’t changed a bit since I was 18 … absolutely not a bit 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm glad it went well for you and your family @Dovefromabove. How Great Thou Art is my favourite hymn. I've asked for it at my funeral.
Lucky you @punkdoc. I suppose being a doctor helped. I still feel bitter about the nearly 4 year wait for my OH. No longer in pain but I think he is probably left with a permanent limp.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Off to see the surgeon this morning, hopefully get some idea of when the next hip can be done.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I hope your wait isn't too long @punkdoc. On the News yesterday I saw the waiting list is now over 7 million.
The saga about your tooth @coccinella sounds appalling. I hope you can get something done before too long.
I ran out of garden twine yesterday so we went to the local GC, Bressingham. I bought a pair of shears, 12 cyclamen, a pair of gardeing gloves and 2 sacks of compost. Forgot the twine!
A friend dropped in yesterday with a birthday card, my birthday on Saturday, so I asked them to dinner last night. I'd bought a fillet mignon of pork which was too big for the 2 of us. I made onion, tomato, mushroom and basil tartlets, stuffed fillet of pork cooked in cider with celery, runner beans and potatoes and our friends supplied a strawberry cheesecake.
Im so sorry that you have been so badly let down, @coccinella. Makes me feel rather ashamed of the profession when I hear stories like this. Thank heavens you have been able to get advice from your cousin, so you can at least do all you can to settle things down until you see the maxfac surgeon. With luck, everything will settle down, and you will be able to enjoy the wedding.
My grandchildren have gone off to school, so I am planning to take the bus into Bath and have a nose around for a few hours. Will have changed a lot, I’m sure, since we lived in the area over 20 years ago.
In my own mind I worked out that second op. would be early next year [ if I was lucky ]
Today the surgeon was checking my progress, and we were having a general chat, when he said, I had a cancellation yesterday, for the 5th. of October, do you want it. Apparently I didn't say anything for several moments, so he asked again. So that is sorted then.
Moira thinks it is me getting out of going to see the MIL in October, but she is thrilled too.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I'm sure you'll be able to keep your general health in better condition once you can be properly mobile again @punkdoc .
Now, where to begin about yesterday ... as Bro left home for the last time and travelled on his vintage tractor and trailer along the narrow hollow way between the farm and the village church, all his (many) tractors and farm machinery (washed and gleaming) were lined up to pay their respects as, back in the day, a farmer's horses would have done, (and as the Queen's riding pony did) ... a lovely funeral service, helped by well-known hymns having been chosen (Guide me oh thou great redeemer and Love Divine) ... the small church was packed, even tho the morning service was family and close friends only. His children did him proud and the weather was kind. At the farm there was a huge marquee (augmented by the best mobile loos I've ever seen) and a sit down lunch of beautifully roasted beef or sea bream with salads, wine, fizz and a very good lime and mint cooler. In the afternoon we drove to the bigger church in the nearby little market town ... despite it being a bigger church (the family had regularly attended both churches as they shared the same vicar) it was packed and there was also a big screen and sound system and at least 100+ seats outside ... a very similar service, with more well-known hymns (Old Rugged Cross, How Great Thou Art and The Lord is my Shepherd to Crimond) and eulogies from a close friend as well as from the children and a professional soprano sang Rutter's The Lord Bless you and Keep You.
At least 500 folk then went back to the farm (car park attendants on two fields) for canapés and champagne. It was more like The Royal Enclosure at Ascot on Derby Day than a funeral. Oh well, Bro was a very social chap mixing in very elevated circles. An exhausting day ... a Chinese meal and an early night rounded off the day for us.
It goes without saying that my dear @WonkyWomble was a huge support and a complete delight ... I have that in writing from my cousin S, thanking her for getting her comfortably seated and fetching her food, coffee etc for her and generally helping ... S has bad arthritis from some nasty riding injuries and was finding all the standing and walking painful. I am so proud of her, her lovely hub, my remarkable son and of course dear OH ... they made a difficult day bearable and held me together.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds a wonderful send off.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
His family lived close to us when we were very young and he my brother were inseparable through their teens and early twenties … despite poor health himself he was there yesterday and gave me so many huge hugs … apparently I haven’t changed a bit since I was 18 … absolutely not a bit 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lucky you @punkdoc. I suppose being a doctor helped. I still feel bitter about the nearly 4 year wait for my OH. No longer in pain but I think he is probably left with a permanent limp.