I stepped on the Wii for the first time for a while this morning.  it is amazing how snippy the damn thing can get.  Yes I know it had been a while.  I had had my throat cut after all.  But for it to literally put it's nose in the air and inform me that it had been 41 days since I had last exercised.  Humph!  I felt like getting off right then and ( Read more... )

Caitlyn looked happy.  In fact she was as happy and natural as I have seen her for a long time.  Very little silliness and just a beam from side to side.  The less said about the organisation and the ability of the Debs and their partners to dance, the better.  But they seemed to enjoy themselves.  We couldn’t see much as we were stuck right up the ( Read more... )

 The room is warm and although it is half past three in the morning I feel quite energetic.  The eye remains blood red, or a browner version of red, but I no longer notice it.  The throat is cut from ear to ear.  I have huge bits of tape across it.  Talk about totally non spectacular.  If I wore a scarf people would not notice.  Where is the ( Read more... )

 So there I was happily wandering around in my nightie and the phone rang.  There had been a cancellation, what was I doing on Thursday?  Apparently I was to go in and get my throat cut.  So panic all round.  Just as I had basically calmed down and worked through all possible scenarios in my head an amazing thing happened ( Read more... )

 The secretary rang yesterday to tell me that there had ben a cancellation and that I could go in as a Public Patient on Thursday. I spent the night tossing and turning. I hate hospitals. I hate general anesthetic and I hate pain. Can I turn this down and say that I like living with my goitre? It and I have become good friends, so much so that ( Read more... )

Things in my life recently?  Well off we went to South Australia.  I took the latest version of a Victorian cold with me and so we did no Vineyard visiting for the first few days.  No palate, no winery.  Then of course I gave it to John and so we did no Vineyard visiting for the next few days and then it was home again.  On the way I discovered we ( Read more... )

 We survived the 60th birthday party and John scored a few very decent reds.  Perhaps now is the time to decide that I no longer sneeze and wheeze when I drink the red?  Who knows.  I suspect that they (the very nice reds, that is) would disappear very quickly into his shed, rather like his father and his whiskey ( Read more... )

 OK now that I have started this stupid thing I feel guilty if I don't write.  I know that I am supposed to write things/stuff/whatever.  Everyone has a novel in them.  I still seem to have lost mine along the way.  But as I said to the little horrors, write, write, write and one day it will become easier.  Practice what I used to preach .. hmmmm ( Read more... )

 This has been hectic but fun.  Yesterday The man turned up to actually put the new meter box in.  So now we actually generate power into the grid - sometimes.  John had a lovely time wandering out and checking, every hour, whether or not we had used electricity or were generating some.  He would come in and announce triumphantly that we had made 4 ( Read more... )

 This is more in the nature of an experiment rather than anything else.  Afterall it is 4.30 in the morning and I have been wandering the house for hours trying to get tired enough to go back to bed.  The paper hasn't arrived yet and I dislike reading it online, despite what all the futurists say.  Papers should be spread all over the table and ( Read more... )