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I got carried away today, although waking up in pain,
Waking in confusion, ailments giving it to me again,
I was feeling a smidge sickly, but not properly poorly,
I pondered and investigated divinators’ activity,
Divination by watching cats’ movements, ailuromancy,
Divination using needles, that’s called acultomancy,
Divination using salt, named alomancy,
Divination by taking a walk, (Strange that) ambulomancy,
Weird one, divination by examining the afterbirth! Amniomancy?
One for Starmer, divination using burning coals,
Arithmancy: divination using numbers, numerology,
Mysteries to me, I’d not heard of many…
Divination; Sitting and chanting within a circle, aspidomancy,
The user uses needles for divination in agalmatomancy,
What I read of this one, rather shocked me…
A long-outlawed one, for the evil divinationary,
It used the entrails of dead/dying men or women, so nasty,
Virgins through sacrifice, Anthropomancy!
There were dozens of others; these few were scary…
These here start with an A, initially, He-He!
I nipped through the rest of the pages quickly,
I think these are okay to write, I say nervously…
Divination by studying the face; physiognomancy,
Divination by means of spirits; psychomancy,
Divination by opening works of poetry, randomly?
Divination using stars, divination using stars, sideromancy,
Sounds more like it should be astronomy?,
This one reminded me of me: spasmatomancy…
Divination by twitching or convulsions of the body,
Sciomancy: divination using ghosts, no, surely?
Divination by means of faeces, spasmatomancy?
Fortune-telling by studying seeds in dung: stercomancy,
Horoscopy, palmistry for prediction or prophecy,
I suppose they do it claiming to be adminicularly?
I imagine divination could be supplementary…
To the waffle we get from the Labour Party,
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Only a few bits to go in now. Sorry.
I think the last weeks have taken a lot out of me.
Not been very up all day. It took so long to get the blog done up to here, and I’m so far behind with everything. Time is getting on. Ejaz will be doing his last call soon.
The paperwork that needed to be done hasn’t been completed because I was feeling poorly this morning. Confused, toothache, dizzy, worse than yesterday. No comments or WP reader visit. Left the tap running, no hot water, no shower or shave.
I’m not feeling sorry for myself, but I’m feeling vague, out of balance, and unable to concentrate. I’m tired out, despite a long broken 6 hours in kip. Just feeling I’m not me. Which sounds odd, I know. Hehe!
This unreal state I woke up in lasted until the evening, but at that time, thankfully, along came
. Unfortunately, being in the grip of
earlier, I decided to risk it and have some Polish sausages, tomatoes, onions, and German ham cheesey-topped bread rolls.
I wasn’t surprised when
dished out the punishment for my stupidity.
By then,
he was making an entry, with his delightful ‘Sod-Em-All’ mode permeating every part of my outlook and brain. Plus, I recognised how silly I’ve been in eating hard foods, so the pain was my own fault. But was I bothered? Well, yes, a bit, but the grip of Horis grew larger. It’s challenging to find the words to express how I felt at that time. Guilt was in there somewhere along with ‘Sod-Em-All’, knowledge that I’m paying the price for something or other and pure relief that the vagueness was on its way, after harassing me all day.
A few photos I took follow, the last ones with
on full swing.
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I recall taking this one after waking up late and feeling in a mood; seeing the fog, it seemed to fit in.
The photo below reminded me that’s probably why I took it. I only took a handful all day.
The computer kept telling me to open my OneDrive Cloud, but I couldn’t figure out how. I failed to achieve this for about an hour or more.
Then the robot told me to install Google updates.
I think this might open the cloud, so I installed them as instructed. Of dearie me, what a fine pickle I’d got myself into. It would have to come while I was feeling so confused, didn’t it? Of course it did.
I had to close all programmes first, then click on install, so I did. It took ages to load and install.
I opened Google, and all of my tabs failed to show up on the screen! A minute’s panic, and I made the fifth visit to the
. Where I pondered over what to do, or try next. When I got back to the computer, a line above everything had appeared on Google. It was empty. I presumably thought the tags were being put on as part of the update. So I left it to see what would happen after an hour of creating words in Hippo. Nothing had happened.
So, I found the Bookmarks, now written as bookmarks & lists, and opened some of the tabs, and clicked on the ” put on tab thingy. Slowly working my way through he ones I wanted to put on. Three hours later, after each one had appeared on the top line on the screen, I clicked on them to open them. The first one, Hippo’s words, had a warning on it about heavy memory usage, so I closed it, and it disappeared from the screen! This also happened with WordPress, Iceland, and Amazon. They all disappeared eventually, each time I
closed them, but just the ones above had ‘High Memory usage flash up. Heartbroken, angry, and frustrated, I closed down the computer, ran CCleaner, and then turned it off. I didn’t notice the amount it cleaned or removed this time, as I was at my lowest point of the day. Shame!
Back to the Porcelain Throne for another Trotsky Terence watery evacuation, and I sat there feeling sorry for myself for yonks.
Ejaz came and did a good job of body-checking, foamed the left ankle, and administered the medications. I did not mention the computer to him; that is how low I felt!
I opened the computer again, and all the original tabs were back in the usual place! I resisted getting hopeful yet, knowing my luck.
But my jiminee, they were working correctly now!
I suppose, being so confused and dispirited, I may have missed something I should have or should not have done during the download and installation.
Then I reran CCleaner.
This is what was cleaned. A little large amount for a ten-minute use?
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Visited, Wonderful!

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Serves me right!
And…
and…

Went to wash the pots
At last, I can appreciate something,
even while in a High-Mood-Horis
“Sod-Them-All” mood!
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some Peptac and Phorpain gelled Cartilage Chloe and Arthur Itis’s knees.
I made a start on yesterday’s blog at long last. But not for long, and another summoning to the Porcelain Throne arrived and had to be responded to.
I put some of the cream onto Little inchy, but had no desire to r
I’m not sure why I bought even more jars of Kung Po sauce… yes, I do now, it was on a special Offer.
These cookies were on Special Price, as well.
I put some in a nibble jar, and the bacon-flavour crispy thingamajigs in another jar. They should be painlessly edible
falling in love, and are an unwell old antique, what else is there that one can do? Hahaha!
The end of the car park, with the regular little red car on the no-parking lines, and two other vehicles were demonstrating their
parking skills for us to admire.
As
Made a cock-up, (I needn’t have mentioned that, I make them that often) and burnt the meal, which made the food harder, defeating my plans for having softer food to counter the effects of dear 


I admit, it can be a bit of a bugger,
during the ablutioning.
Refilled the bottom cyoboard again
fridge. Polish sausages, Zwieska, Cheesy Rolls, Roast pork and rostis. I have plenty of drinks for anyone who calls to help me
in any way. The iced coffees are particularly popular.
this colour was the best ever recorded. While being hospitalised for 3, then four days, I kept missing the nurses changing it. Then the three weeks with the fractured knee meant I couldn’t, daren’t move it back then, cause of the pain of it. But it is far less hurtful today, so I moved it. I have complete confidence that the dentist will alleviate the pain later today. Hahaha!
We got off at the Mansfield Rd bus stop on the hill. We nattered and had a laugh as we crossed the road and walked up to the dental surgery. I was danged-glad that Ejaz was with me. Getting up those four deep steps is not easy without the trolley, but Ejaz assisted me.
I continued working on this blog and then headed back down to the laundry room. Took me ages to get the clothes sorted and folded. They were a smidge damp, well, the thick coat was. I cleaned the filter and reinstalled it. Taking this photo of a car on the chevrons at the front of the flats on the way back. I met the lady
who helped me on the way back, and offered her my appreciation and thanks.
I added the heavy coat from the dryer to the rest of the clothing in the bag, taking care to keep everything as straight as
possible. Going back along the link corridor, I stopped twice because my frequently fractured knee was pretty painful.
When Ejaz did his late call, he took a snap of my right leg. Not a pretty sight at all. Then again, that’s not unusual!
I very stupidly added raw garden peas to the tray. This resulted in instant pain from the four teeth and gums on the right side of my mouth.
As Ejaz left after his early morning visit, I realised he had not given me one of the Amoxicillin tablets. I took one and made a note for me to tell Ejaz. Afterwards, I wondered if I’d done the right thing or the wrong thing. I was aware of what the Dentist or Chemist was communicating to Ejaz; maybe they told him to start the course in the morning?
On Ejaz’s last visit, I told him I’d taken the Amoxicillin tablet & why. He took a shot of the legs and the colour of the urine in the catheter day pouch, it’s getting darker now. One thing that struck me was the new compression bandage’s colour, so skin-like.
Thanks to Carer Ejaz.
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Found the photo I’d lost of yesterday’s meal.
Put the TV on while the meal is cooking.
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Mystery morning photo?
Got on the computer eventually
Nocturnal pouch left on too long
Health Checks are both high.
Carer Ejaz busy today, helping me out
The bed was very welcome
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I woke late and felt tired but not particularly down mentally. I decided to get the ablutionings done, which turned out to go like this: Very well. The Precelain Throne first. Constipation Conrad is back in charge again. ‘Fully’ in charge. It took a long time for the evacuation to start.
fractured knee I woke up with was hurting a fair bit, but it soon eased.
as a bit of fluid leaking, but nothing to fret about.
At this point, I was doing well, considering, then as I got on the computer… Then the sudden attacks from the three ailments hit me all at once.
all day), and the worst of the three at that time, that was
later, with no pain relief attained, I took a Co-Codamol tablet I bought from Chemist’s 4U on the web.
drinking enough liquid. I gave up on sleep. 
out there. I didn’t scar my legs on the Wheelchair footrests again, though. Hehe! Although I did manage to trap the same finger as yesterday in the sliding glass door. Tsk!
I missed this one off. I’m not sure when I took it, but it is, without a doubt, a photo of my once-beloved tree copse on the lower field, opposite the prison cells, or rather, opposite the block flats where I currently reside. Haha!
I imagine I’m just going bonkers.

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The moment I woke up this morning.
These two were taken this morning by Carer Ejaz.
Blown if I remember what he said, but it made me laugh as he took a snap as I was putting back on a nightshirt after he had Barrier creamed where needed on his body-check. Bless him!
Later, I went onto the balcony to take this shot of the Citrus Walk end car park. Nice parking.
The rain started later on.
The wind was howling near lunchtime.
The rain eased of later on.
Followed by my twisting the fractured knee as I turned with the stick, and dropped the dam thing again! This time, I did fetch the Picker-Upperer.
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06:00hrs: Removed the nocturnal catheter pouch and made my way to the
limited saneness of mind, with my right leg leaking fluid yet again, & the fractured knee in pain.
my cell… I mean flat.
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I may be bleeding and painfully limping,
He noted that the foot and ankle were looking better and took this snap on the left. On his last call of the day, we found that the leg’s Lymphoedema was leaking again. If it is in the morning, he’ll inform the district nurses. Not that either of us thinks that it will do us any good. We must try.
I’ven’t got up so late in many a month. 07:15hrs. I was doing the ablutions and on the Throne when Ejaz arrived to sort me out. Glad to report that Constipation Konrad has lost some of his grip on the evacuations; still needed input to get moving, but once it started, it was easy-peasy.
Ejaz sorts the prescription medications drawer.
Made a brew in the little mug.
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misery of losing Nurse Christina, with her charm, compassion, wit, and caring nature. Hristina is sadly missed already.
Carer Ejaz, on his last call, pointed out that the left foot, in particular, had swollen, and I was experiencing pain under
the middle right toe again. The left toes had sort of warped. The foot top & ankle had blown up and were a smidge tender. He said if they were the same in the morning, he’d call the Community nursing number and inform them of the situation. Bless him.
End car park.
Food repetition & cock-up


Marmite roast potatoes, cheesy bread rolls spread with Marmite, and Solokow Polish sausages. Eaten with a bag of Marmite crisps! Lovely!