Tuesday 11th July 2017
2017年7月11日星期二 (Chinese simplified)
0420hrs: Stirred, full of memories of the dreams and they all faded within seconds, Tsk!
A Trotsky Terence inspired visitation to the Porcelain Throne arrived and I responded to immediately. Not too bad this time I thought, but I was l left with stinging in the rear department from Haemorrhoid Harold’s sufferings. Apart from Dizzy Dennis, other ailments seemed calm.
Into the kitchen, put the kettle on, and back to the Porcelain Throne. Oh, dearie me.
Made a mug of tea, took the morning medications with a Diahorrea relief capsule and did the Health Checks.
Sys 145, Dia 80, Pulse 89, Temp 35.8 and the weight 14.79 – then back on the Porcelain Throne.
Feeling very sore in certain departments now, Hehe! No idea why I’m laughing?
0530hrs: Got the computer going and finalised the Monday post, and began doing this one.
Checked the Emails and responded to them. Moved on WordPress reading.
Got the latest TFZer graphicalisation completed: Mary and her admirers.
Did some Facebooking. I turned everything off. (I hope).
Got the ablutions done. No shower as it was still too early and might the noise might annoy my neighbour, Joyce.
Got the things in the bag, and off I went out into the rain, and down to the New Temporary Community Shed, dropping off two jars in the recycling bin en route.
Into the shed, to find a young woman washing the pots in the sink, and a bloke spread-eagled over a chair at the first table, looking not unlike John Wayne did in the Sheriff’s office in the Rio Bravo film. No idea who they were, perhaps from the building contractors as personnel for the workmen? I espied four laptops all the same model on the table. One for Obergruppenfurheress Deana, one for Obergefrieteress Julie and each of the other two? So they must be working here I assumed, for the duration of the upgrading process. Which will be 24 to 39 months, according to the sign on the wall?
They’ll be a few us old ones that don’t see the results, then? Hehe!
But I’m waffling again, sorry about that.
Julie appeared and told me Deana was in her office. I put the nibbles in the fridge for them. There was no rush (I thought). I waited until she returned to her laptop on the desk. Julie went into the office. Explained about the ‘3 Company problems’ and Deana took me into her office where it was quieter, to make the call to the phone company for me.
She liked the music they played for her while waiting in the queue for someone to answer her, and worked on her computer while doing so.
After while she was put through to someone who she thought would be an accounts persons, but it was the complaints department. After a lengthy discussion and I had given permission for Deana to speak on my behalf, she rang off. Told me I would receive a letter telling me the account is closed and a final Bill! I am to let her know when it arrives.
Thanked her and I made my out of the hut: Oh dear me, the wind and rain had got much worse since going into the hut. Hehe!
Looking at this later: I thought, is that a bird or a brolly near the middle?
Brolly out and up and back to the foyer in the flats to the left. Had a chinwag with some other tenants and them we made our way to the bus stop at the other units. Huddled under the recesses to the fire doors and caretaker’s (I use the word loosely) out of the wind and rain, there was no room for me to fit in. Haha! But I did have the new brolly that I could get myself under and keep dry. It coped very well with the wind too.
The bus arrived and a mini-stampeded to get on was very impressive considering the rioter’s ages. I was the last one to get on, but there were plenty of seats left.
Down Winchester Street Hill and right up Mansfield Road and many of the tenants got off the bus here.
I took this photograph as the last few filed out. Jenny’s other half on the right, Frank just about to rise to get off. He seemed a little less his usual cheery self this morning. Roy on the left was in good form.
On and into Arnold I decided not to go to the park lake in all this rain, as I carried on and dropped off on High Street in Arnold, almost opposite the Wilko store. The rain stopped as I did so. Over the Pelican lights and into the Wilko shop, on one last mission to try and find some Dettol Lavender disinfectant and Citrus underarm spray. I left the place without any of them, now assured they have stopped stocking them at all.
The light drizzle started as I walked up the parade and called in at the open market. No pod peas on offer, well there were some, but they looked a bit weather-beaten and old.
Limped on and called in the Boyes store. Came out less well off and with a Sinex Spray, Olive oil ear drops and a packet of Belgium Orange thin chocolates for the raffle on Thursday.
I walked along two shops and into the Savers store. Got some ear-solve, Listerine Lemon, Diarrhoea capsules and Foot spray.
Limped on to the Iceland store. At the busy checkouts, the queue I was in had a problem, the lady being served could not get her card to work. The poor gal on the till kept ringing the bell for assistance, but none arrived for ages. I nearly got trampled on by the customers as they migrated like a herd of buffalos to the other till. I waited patiently on this till, as another assistant arrived to open the third one. Watching the way of the humans responded and almost fought with each other to be first in line, dispirited me.
Plodded out with my New Mexico flavoured Pringles, Sourdough Batch sliced loaf, Jammie Wagon Wheels and Iced lemon slices, and struggling with the weight of the bag now. At least the rain was keeping off.
Limped over to take a look in the Fulton Foods store, but they had nowt in that interested me.
Then painfully struggled to the Asda (Walmart) Giant Supermarket, now really struggling to carry the heavy bag. Got two lemon frazzle desserts, a TV magazine for next week and two packets of ready sliced, battered potatoes. I used the self-serve payment booths. A bit of a farce because I forgot to put my bag on the scales, but a kind assistant came over and threw it onto the scale for me, and proffered me a nice loud Tsk! Then he muttered something I didn’t hear, as he wandered off to insult another customer, presumably?
Hobbled out and to the bus stop, just in time for the L9 bus back to Sherwood and the apartments. By which time I was ready for a visit to the Porcelain Throne.
Got the things sorted and put away.
Tended to the Porcelain Throne duties.
Got the kettle on. Did the Health Checks then returned to the Porcelain Throne.
When I came out, boy was it raining or was it raining!
It does not show in this photograph, but I could see as the rain eased nearby, the rain falling miles away to the West of the City.
Got the Computer on and updated this dairy.
The Grammarly programme is causing all sorts of a hassle since I could not get it to work on Google browser.
Had a wee-wee.
The door chime then chimed. (As it occasionally does – Hehe). It was Mary from flat 38, returning the DVD’s that she’d borrowed.
We had a chinwag, and I asked her if she could see my DVD’s on the shelves that she fancied seeing. She selected a couple and mentioned how much that she like the door chime. I showed her how it worked and she was even more in love with it. So we went on the Coopers of Stortford website (Where I got it from) and viewed the item. They had it in the sale, so it was £9 less, than when I bought mine! All good!
Asked her if she would like me to order one for her, and Mary agreed with a smile.
I got into the ordering sections and realised I had not used this site since changing my banks, so the details needed updating. What a job, trying to find out where and how to do so. Between us, we eventually found it and altered it, and Coopers accepted the order and sent Confirmation. It should be here within five days. So glad that Mary liked this, it’s so nice to able to help someone else, instead of my having to ask for help from others.
I told her about my breaking the mirror, and we both had a look at Cooper’s, then at Amazon, but could not find any shaving mirrors on sale. Shame that!
I walked her to the lift, and got back in and had a wee-wee.
Then I got on with updating this again. For ten minutes… because Mary returned and rang the bell again, and, bless her, she had brought me two mirrors, a plastic framed shaving one, and a wall one, that she said she’d had not used for years and never needed – and offered them to me.
I thanked her very much indeed. Off she went, and I got the blue plastic mirror ensconced in the wet room.
That was incredibly kind of her, wasn’t it!
Pressed on with doing this update, but it was getting late.
Got the potatoes in the oven.
Had a wee-wee.
Sliced potatoes, tomatoes, beetroots, Chinese mushrooms, standard mushrooms, potato cakes, fresh pod peas and buttered Sourdough bread.
Afterwards, I had the odd nibble of the Texan BBQ crisps, they were okay.
Had a wee-wee, and minutes later back to attend to more Trotsky activity.Settled to watch some TV, but with it
I settled down to watch some TV, but with it being so late in the day for me, the nodding off soon started.
TTFN.
Had a wee-wee.
Took this photographicalisation on the corner of Chestnut Walk and Winchester Street hill that leads down to Sherwood.
Spotted the blackberries coming along nicely on the hedge bushes on the side of the road.
o… (She was struggling now, I could sense it) I couldn’t have! You must have misheard me, Sir.”
Limped (literally now) to the Lidl store and spent more money on what I could have done without.
the feet and toe were too dangerously stinging for any voluntary walking by now.
Got the food prepared and served up.
0500hrs: The Strange Awakening.
Took the morning medications and made up the pots for next weeks doses. Needless to say, I was happy I still had some of the Morrison Acute Diarrhoea Derek tablets and took one with the other medications.
Made a mug of tasty tea.
wander through the Copse later, take some nature pictures perhaps… hello, the rumbling innards have started again. Back to the Porcelain Throne.
Also, I have to fill in a City Care Satisfaction Survey about the nurses who did the Enoxaparin injections for me, five pages of this.
Had a wee-wee. Went into the kitchen to get some more antiseptic wipes and spotted two things out of the window below.
Started another graphic off, and the Amazon man arrived with the parcel, containing the hearing-boosters and lid remover.
while I was sorting out and getting the items assessed!
Far too late up for me, now. Feeling all drained again.
had to stab holes in the lid of the jar when I failed to get it off with the new wonder lid-removal tool from Amazon, I was lucky enough to have an empty beetroot jar to transfer the fodder into. Not big enough, so I had to throw some away, though.
I felt I’d done a lot of waking up throughout the evening and morning. Found some pencilled notes on the pad about some dream.No memories at all lingered, just the scribbled note. No memories at all lingered, just the scribbled notes, oddly written in caps and script format?
Carried out the Health Checks. Sys 147, Dia 76, Pulse 98, Temperature 34.5 and the weight the same as the previous time. 14.65.
Did rather well with the crosswords en route.
it them at the Arboretum or Arnot Hill Park. Best seed mix, Suet pellets, Sunflower Hearts and some mealworms. Mint chocolate biscuits for me and me only (Well. I like them! Hehehe!) Some retractable pencils, different colour highlighters and some spiral mini-notepads and departed.
here with the things I was after. I got some own-label Potato Cakes, sourdough bread and wholemeal bread thins.Just hope there is room in the freezer!
ear someone talking on a microphone in child fashion well before I got to the corner.
some verbals about something or other. I moved in the opposite direction. As I turned left two CPSO’s (Community Protection Officers) were running towards where I had just left?
book into the microphone. I assumed the pig things are from some TV show because a large crowd had gathered to watch and listen, all with kids in tow. Many were filming and photographing the entertainers.
as I took this last picturization of the Slab Square, that only one person in the shot is using a mobile phone?
The gorgeous smell that emanated from Big Reds BBQ restaurant was making me feel so hungry. Seeing the posters of the fodder in the windows as well didn’t help much.
rly had me through the front window when he jammed the anchors on at the bus stop on Winchester Street Hill. The bus stop is to the left of this photograph, I took this one as got to the other side of the road after alighting the vehicle.
The plate of meat was stinging something awful now, and I needed a wee-wee desperately.
Got on with catching up on Facebooking, then.
The meal was okay, not one of my best, but nice. I spoilt it with overdoing the cheese, and it ended up a bit of a battle to chew it… Hehe!
Performed the Health Checks and took the medications.
The sky was different this morning, reminded me of the Shepherds Warning.
I did see that there is at 1400hrs today, a Fire Service Meeting in the new temporary Winwood Centre Portacabin. For the Woodthorpe Court Tenants, 1500hrs for the Winchester Tenants (Who are lucky to have the bus stop moved to just outside their block of flats when the Woodthorponians have to walk so much further to get a bus. And the new cabin it nearest to them as well! But it doesn’t bother me!) Hehehe!
end, then said my farewells to Olive and sneaked out from the door at the opposite end of the cabin, sensing the glares and stares behind me as I did so.
Had a rather morose walk down Winchester Street Hill into Sherwood, and called at the Continental Food Shop. Asked for three slices belly pork with stuffing and garlic, and one Polish cooked chicken thigh. And a jar of Chinese mixed mushrooms in oil. I thought they were a bit expensive at £8.51? (When I got back to the flat later, there were six (Not the three I’d asked for, slices of pork and two, not the one I’d asked for, chicken thighs! Humph!).
Called in the Charity shops but nothing appealing, then I made my way to the bus shelter to catch an L9 bus back up the hill to the Winwood compound.
Dropped off the bus at the Winchester flats where it has been relocated to, and in need of a wee-wee, I made my way down to the end of Chestnut Walk to me Woodthorpe Court block.
ave them cold with the meal.
It was from Jenny, the flats coordinator, a former Woodthorpe Obergruppenfurheress Warden and tenant.
washing into the dryer.
Up again, both of the lifts now working again.
Did some more updating on the diary. Got it finished and posted off. It was time to go and collect the laundry again.
Went to make a cuppa, and saw that I’d forgotten about the bag of laundry I’d dropped as I got through the door in my haste to get to the wetroom. So I put away the stuff in the airing cupboard.
The Anticoagulation Record had arrived while I was out at the Hut.
I made an Email for the Sherrington Park Surgery requesting an appointment as instructed for Wednesday 12th July as early as possible for the next INR blood test. I added the photograph I took of the Anticoagulation Records details, like a subtle sarcastic reminder that they have not sent me an Email with the changed dosages. I don’t suppose they will be interested really, though.
Took the midday medications and did the Health Checks.
No rain at all today yet. It did say on the radio, some areas will get none, and others a ‘Yellow Warning’ storm?
astle Boulevard twenty minutes ago.
Did the evening Health Checks.
Got the fodder served up, and a great one it was too, taste-wise.
Kept waking up and nodding off again for an hour or so, so drained after yesterday’s exertions and hassle.
Had a wee-wee.Then did the Health Checking routine.
Had a wee-wee, then got some potatoes on the slow boil to have later when I get back from the surgery.
Out and to the end of the road then right down the hill and left and up the Mansfield Road hill and down into Carrington.
To the bus stop.
using this bus, but I was not sure if the L9 was going to arrive or not. They often fail to turn up.
and started the ascent up to the flats. The feet were stinging, Arthur Itis and Anne Gyna both kicked off.
Note the bus stop could not be further away from Woodthorpe Court and is situated right next to Winchester Court. Doesn’t bother me though!
Got the fodder prepared and served up.
Searched for the Anticoagulation Card again. No luck. Danged thing is somewhere cause I found it the other day… Tsk!
Through the gates and was greeted with the relocated bust of Nottingham MP Samuel Morley. (1809 – 1886), Head of I & R Morley in Nottingham.
Over the road and down into the Slab Centre Square.
fortune buying the DVDs. Huh, I am a fool!
He patiently persevered and eventually got the nasty clump put for me.
Then he started to mould the ear pieces, five minutes in each hole alternately and they were ready and moulded.
Back in and did the insides of them. Cleaned the frames and then sorted out the loose paperwork into folders and updated the written diary.
Noticed when I went to put the kettle on, the motorists were still blocking each other in?
I got the lamb shank in the saucepan, peas in a small one and the potatoes were already in the Crock-pot.
Better get the fodder ready.