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A smidge darker this morning… Like me?
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Another not-good early morning effort. Tsk!

My morning mug of Glengettie tea.

arrived. Got the ankle & leg straps on first, as it was a bit nippy. Medications sorted. Extra pain killer, as suddenly burst forth with pain. Throughout the day, I was coughing and sneezing a fair bit. And was causing me to take deep breaths, and that also brought me pain from the back.

On the computer…

I thought moving about a bit might ease the back pains. So I sorted the waste bags into one and took it to the front door. This was not a good idea; kicked off something rotten! Humph!

The rain soon started.

I went on the balcony to take a shot of the end car park.
A mudslide building up already.

Got some spuds in the crock-pot to have later. The plan is to cut them and put them in some vegetable soup.

As I was in the kitchen, the rain increased.

I just don’t know what happened here… nothing unusual there, though, is there? I’d clicked on Control I to open the import window, which I’ve done thousands of times. The small selection window came up and, out of the blue, expanded itself to the full-screen size! Now showing dozens of photos. The resize function not working
There are no expand minimise buttons on this option, and now CorelDraw is not responding to the corner where one can usually resize it with the mouse!
I checked every option I could find and tried a few things, not knowing what they were or meant, just in the hope that I could get the view back to standard size. Because I couldn’t see the work screen to know which graphic was needed while the import screen was so big! Eventually, I gave up. I may have cried as well. I indeed cursed and swore proliferously!

Hence, it is now gone 19:00hrs, and I have just returned the screen to normal. I’m only just starting this blog! There was an option on the page to ‘Hide Files’? But for hours, I was too nervous to use it. Desperation made me try… and the screen returned to standard size?
I do feel like a fool!

arrived, and this was before I found the solution, so moaned away about my bad luck. Hehe!
We had a quick natter and laugh.

The strappings that Carer Sam put on were holding up well. Thanks to Sam.

Got dark quickly tonight; it’s still raining with it.
Again, I tried to get some decent shots for once, of the evening lights.
Why do I bother to?
Still, the night and lights were lovely.

Arrived. Got the medications sorted, and we nattered while he did so. I also, told him about the Corel Draw cock-up. (Not yet sorted out)

This is when I got the gumph to try the ‘Hide Files’ button.
I was over the moon about this, but I am still worried that whatever I did to cause it in the first place might happen again. I turned off Corel Draw and loaded it again; boy, was I happy when it opened the right size!
This got me thinking about the belated meal sorting out and prepping to be done. So, I did!
Got the potatoes out of the crock-pot. Drained them and left them in the strainer sieve. Washed the crock pot and got the vegetable cutting board out.
Some top go in the soup, others I nibbled as I prepared the nosh. Well! It seemed like a good idea.
Washed and back to the kitchen.
Got the chopped spuds into the soup.

Back in the front room to the computer. So far behind now after another catastrophe. I have to do at least some blogging, or I’ll never catch up after many lost hours.
The state of the room hit me as I hobbled into it.
A twinge of guilt, mayhap?

The landline flashed. It was someone, a bloke, from Meridian Care, telling me that the late Carer, who is so far behind, had a medical emergency to deal with. Fair enough, I replied, it can’t be helped.

Bet you got it? I didn’t, Tsk!

Nosh Time
A Reet-feast!
Added the cut potatoes cooked in the crock-pot to the can of soup. Added some liquid smoke. (I put some in when cooking the potatoes as well). Tomato Pasatta with basil and some distilled vinegar to the mix. Came out pretty good tasting for a guessed at flavourings soup. I could taste the liquid smoke! Nice!
Flavour-Rating: 803/10.
Note the tiny designer cut on the finger? Available via slicing potatoes with the steak knife.
helped create it.

Arrived. I inquired if the resident, taken poorly, was doing okay. He thought so.
He gave a good rubbing in of the.
The back has been painful yesterday all day and worse this morning. The pain is higher than usual?
Took some of the ineffective Paracetamols, and after Israel had gone, I took another Codeine. Which eased the agony after ten minutes… naturally it was still bad, but not worse. Hehe! Then I got the TV on and settled into the second-hand shop bought nine years ago for £300, c1966, discomfiting, alarmingly beige-coloured, crumb-containing, TV remote hiding, not working recliner.

Three things ruined any chance of a decent sleep!
in the lower legs.
And . Especially each time I coughed (which I was doing often) or when I moved position in the slightest. Which I did for a good but painful reason . I’d forgotten about reminding to please take off both of the . Hence, was having a ball, giving me anguish overnight!

The balance will be all to pot in the morning, I reckon. (Of course, it was!)

TTFN