What we old biddies and baldies were watching in 1960
Wednesday 30th March 2016
Woke up around 0400hrs and remembered the dentist appointment but could not recall the time. Sad, I know! So got the laptop on first to check on the Google calendar. 1115hrs.
Then to the WC, no bleeding from Little Inchy, but Hemo Oids was gushing a bit.
Made a cuppa and took the medications, and back to the porcelain for another heavy duty session?.
Cleaned up a bit in the kitchen when I went back to make another cuppa.
Returned and set about doing the graphic above, of the TV 1960 TV programmes.
Finished off the previous diary and then spotted the full pot of medications that I’d not taken yet, so I took them.
Out of the blue, I suddenly started to think of and miss Chrissie.
Whatever kicked off and ingeminated these emotions I’ve no idea. But I was transported for few moments back to the good times and the fun and games we’d enjoyed so very much.
I believed I could smell her at one time while I was looking at her photo on top of the electric fire. Don’t laugh! I thought then, the electric fire is the optimum position to reflect her memories.
Once more to the porcelain, three times know this morning? Best get rid before I get to the dentist, though.
Hello, I’m sneezing again, that reminded me I woke myself up sneezing earlier. The rain started coming again too, now.
Checked the emails, I got one via Streetwise about the starting a new U3A starting nearby.
So I went on their site to find out more:
One a month meetings, Only £20 to pay annually. You can buy a drink at the meetings. These workshops have been designed not just Meetings, Only £20 to pay annually. You can buy a drink at the meetings. These workshops have been designed not just for Committee members but for any U3A member who might be interested in joining a Committee. The workshops home in on the U3A ethos and on helping committees to manage their U3As more effectively. Prospective committee members would gain a useful insight into how committees work from either of the two workshops. The beauty of workshops like this is the opportunity they afford delegates to share experiences by networking with members of other U3As.
Conveniently sited where there is not a bus service to reach it for me.
Conveniently held at the same time as my beloved Woodthorpe Social gathering hour.
Conveniently, I wasn’t interested!
The roundabout walk to the dentist is not a long one, but I thought I’d show this diagram just in case I collapse on the way back like, then you’ll know where to search for the body.
Did some Facebooking then.
Ablutions tended to.
Set off up the gravel path to the park and left down onto Mansfield Road and towards the Dentist.Paid up, before treatment as is usual with this Stalag Dentist establishment. Read my book a bit and was commanded to go upstairs to treatment room two.
Received a phone all from Steve Age UK. Wonderful, after four weeks trying to get in touch with him. He is still finishing with me, but had had a telephone from the solicitors and need me to find the email address of the lawyers. He, to call at the flat later to pick it up?
Got in the dentists and paid up the fee, before treatment as is usual with this Stalag Dentist establishment. Read my book a bit and was commanded to go upstairs to treatment room two.
Where they told me the canal work was not being done today, just a clean and the fillings for the front two bottom teeth. They got the burner going, then filed and cleaned out the bits followed by a filling and further filing.
I noted that they had cleaned out the neon lighting cover since my previous visit. I know this because on my last visit I counted 75 flies and moths and one wasp in it. Today they were down to only 39 flies and moths.
I was told to make an appointment with the Obergruppenfurher receptionist, this I did. As I left the through the door, at the bus stop were two flat residents. So I didn’t walk back after all. I had a chat with them and caught the bus back up the Winchester Street Hill, having a laugh between up as we did.
Got in the flat and WC’d, made a cuppa.
Awaiting the arrival of Steve from Age UK.
Started sorting the paperwork folders.
Got the potatoes on the boil.
Deana Walker (Head honcho of the flats) called to do battery check on the alarm. Gave her an Easter egg for her and Julie.
Back to the sorting of the paperwork.
Still awaiting the arrival of Steve from Age UK.
Drained the potatoes. WC visit made another cup of tea.
Still awaiting the arrival of Steve from Age UK.
Received email from the surgery with the latest INR level reading. Down now to 2.2. So that’s 2.9 – 3.4 – 5.6 – 3.8 – 5.7 and now 2.2? Puzzling innit? Ah well!
Made a start on a graphic to use later.
Still awaiting the arrival of Steve from Age UK. (I’m losing heart here) I reckon because he lives close by, he’ll call really late in the day and say he has to rush he’s on his way home! Wanna bet? Cunning chap! Two days to go when I lose his services which he has not been supplying anyway. Bitter? Me?
Well, fancy that he just rang he’s not coming, just wanted the email address for the solicitors. Now I’ve lost interest and faith!
Turned off the laptop and got the fodder dished up.
Pulled pork, potatoes and sticks. yogourt.
Rated this one as 8.9/10.Took medications.
Took medications.
TV’s from then on, feeling a bit down, but the thought of the Winwood Social hour tomorrow kept me going.
TTFN.
I must remember to tell the nurse about my new bruises today at the INR blood test session. I’ve got a new one since taking this photograph. A mystery to me these are.
I got an email from my mate Duncan from Birmingham.
Got a quick wash and shaved ready for the Morrisons delivery of fodder.
Set off for the Clinic and surgery. A third of the way there and the rain pelted down and the wind blew as I hobbled up Mansfield Road.
As I left and waited for the bus, the sky looked a bit nasty again.
Another Nottingham Pavement Cyclist shot by me and weaved between the other pedestrians.
At the top of the hill, I took a photo of the old trees I fell in love with last month again.
It was close to 1430hrs and BJ’s ETA. Mind you he did say about 1430hrs, with BJ you can give an allowance a day or two either way. Haha! Some mail had been delivered.So I got the purchases put away
Hehe!
BJ arrived at 1510hrs.
Having bought the Frikadellens I could not resist having some.
Boy, what a sensational dream filled night that was! I seemed to have slept and dreamt the whole way through for seven hours. I cannot recall getting seven hours kip in one night for years. I felt it was all one dream too, not the usual mish-mash of bits.
I had a bit of luck then and found the plastic strainer I lost a few days ago.
I got the lamb shank in the saucepan and simmering away, and warmed the oven up ready for the chips to go in. Put the peas in the small saucepan to warm through later.
Woke around 0520hrs, but it was really 0530hrs. No medical hiatus’s prevented me from hobbling around and resetting the clocks. In fact, I was physically in good shape, even ‘Little Inchy’ has stopped his bleeding.
Went to put the kettle on again, and had to clear up three or four dead meat-flies on the window ledge?
And not anyone animal could be seen anywhere.
I did a graphic of Caroline, Frankie, Lynton, and Shuttlecock for a bit of fun.
Got the fodder going.
The backdrop: I was being sat down at a desk in a chair in a room with no doors other than a lift door, sat across from someone I knew, who gave me an answer to a question, but did not mention what the actual query was?
Actually got up at 2355hrs, totally convinced it was around 0500hrs?
To the WC, the clock now telling me it was coming up to 0500hrs now.
The forecasted wind and rain had not arrived yet.
I had a look on Google to see the weeks Rain and Wind forecast.
Up to the top of the hill opposite the flats and right down to Mansfield Road, out of Woodthorpe Grange Park, over the hill into Sherwood and down to the Nottingham Hospice Charity Shop.
Back up the hill and down to the park, up the path and right down the steep hilly gravel track to the flats.
The carpet men arrived at 0930hrs, three of them. But there were two of them with another calling in to see them now and then.
They demanded their money and were off in a flash – too quick for my liking as I hadn’t the time to check on what they had done.
Of course, the Untied Carpet people were not interested at all.
Into the kitchen, put the kettle on and added a senna tablet to the mornings medications, made a brew and took them.
Got the things ready and had a bath and scrub-up. Drying off, I spotted some bruises on the rib-cage.
Moved up to Asda and went to the photograph section. Started going through the process on the copier machine, but an assistant had to come to clarify things for me. I still managed to get them with borders on and in a larger size than I wanted. Humph! Still all 14 cost only £5.60. I paid the lady, got my receipt and did some shopping – spending far too much again! Grumph!
It was not very warm it, though, despite the glorious looking sunshine and almost free of clouds sky.
seating on it.
It was the lady who was giving me the threatening dagger looks at the Social Hour yesterday as I took the photographs.
about the coming gales and heavy rain.
On the way, I took a photographicalisation of some terrace houses on the Main Road in Arnold, through the bus window.
Now there’s a sad thing: The last deep mine in the UK has recently closed!
Finished off and posted Thursdays Inchcock Today off.
I got up, WC’d, made a cup of tea and took the medications.
Back down and out to the Community Hut.A good few folks there already, mind you, I a bit late at having to go back for me hearing aid I suppose.
Asda (Walmart; I didn’t hand the ones out that Asda had cut the heads off of!) And realised I’d left them in the flat Tsk!
Back to the Community Hut and handed them out.
Nottingham Arena last week, was still in good form, though. A very sharp Senior Citizen lady.
Down with it to the room, and noticed Lily was in the foyer, and she asked if I had any nibbles for her.
Eventually, I emptied the dryer, cleaned the filter and had a wipe around.
I got in the flat and then noticed a letter stuck in the box. It was another Anticoagulation Record Notification.
and the INR Warfarin Blood Tests? Wednesday I don’t expect to be in any condition for travelling; It’s the dentist for me. Two fillings and two root canal jobs. (Whatever that is?)
No dizzies for a few hours now. That’s good.