Thursday 26th November 2015

No snow, no ice, no rain as the day lit up
Woke at 0600 hrs, still feeling bitter about FraserBrown (The amateur mock-Solicitors) mucking me about.
WC’d, made a cuppa and took me medications, remembering to take the extra Warfarin. Then realised I’d already taken them last night – a good Whoopsidangleplop start to the day!
Took ages finishing yesterdays dairy off, the ages on Facebook catching up.
Several cups of tea later, I started this one off, then got missen ready to go to the Clinic – bath have etc.
Want to go feed the ducks today if I can get ready in time and the clinic visit is not too long like.
So I’ll gerrof and prepare missen then.
TTFN.
All ready, bus-pass, camera, clinic cards, wrapped up warm, stomach settling and off I go.
Off on the L9 into town.
Nottingham pavement cyclists were rampant today.
I wondered down into the City Centre and wondered around for a bit taking photographs as I waited for the time arriving to nip up to the clinic.
The Christmas stalls were attracting the attention of the local ladies.
This stall selling well overpriced ladies accoutrements seemed popular.
I wanted to tell the girls that they could get the same stuff they were selling for £5 and £8 from the Pound Shop
around the corner.
The German food stall was busy preparing the food on a giant rotating dish in the middle of the stall. I must say it smelt lovely.
If I win the lottery later I might be able to afford to buy some of there meats.
I must be feeling a bit better methinks, cause when I saw the sign hanging up on the stall that said ‘Olde English sausages – the noticed the Robirch Sausages bag they had just emptied onto the grill, I felt like telling them that Robirch sausages are Irish made, not English, mind you they are great tasting though.
I wandered up to the clinic and noticed more Nottingham Pavement Cyclists buzzing through the crowds and scaring some of the old folk. Swine!
I got there and handed me letter and card to the receptionist. She read them, frowned and asked me why I was attending today and not in January as is me usual appointment time?
“Because the letter you sent me” I says… “Told me to come today at 1245hrs!”
She glanced down at he paperwork again, tutted and said nothing other than she pointed to the benches and commanded me to take a seat. Which I did.
As I waited I thought how lucky she was – if she was to lose her job through being thick, arrogant and uncaring, she’d walk into a job with FraserBrown pretend solicitors, fit in perfectly she would! Hehehe! Bitter still, Me?
A lady with a wonderful smile called me into the treatment room and was most helpful and understanding. (She wouldn’t stand a chance of getting job with FraserBrown We-hate-Clients Solicitors at all)
She even explained why they cannot replace me inner plastic bit that went discoloured. She said it so nicely I was happy they hadn’t done it just for the opportunity to talk to her.
As I left someone else was getting an earful from the receptionist, who I think noticed me smiling at this? Oh dear, I hope she’s not on duty in January, she might remember me.
Another Nottingham Pavement Cyclist nearly got me as I walked through town on me way to the Canal to feed me ducks.
Outside a pub on South Parade an ambulance was collecting a customer and gently getting him in the bck of the ambulance.
A police officer got in with him?
On down Wheeler Gate I plodded, more pavement cyclists but they were too quick for me to gerrum on film.
I walked through the Broad Marsh shopping centre and called in the DVD shop to have a nosey around.
They didn’t have owt to tempt me with though.
Along to the Pound Shop, where I got carried away. Found they had just two pairs of the fingerless gloves with matting on the inside left, these are great when your fingers freeze, cause they help me keep hold of whatever I was holding at the time the fingers froze… if yer follow me like. So I got them, then saw they had tinned steak so I got one of them, a pair of long socks and a stylus pen for using on me mobile.
Then poddled to the Heron Store and got some bread.
Out and across the road to the Canal bridge… where a group of youths stopped me and asked if I was local, each had a clipboard and I said “Are you?”
It could have got interesting as I noticed the sneer coe on his face and the others closed in. But the traffic lights changed then and I could not hear what he was saying o wandered off pointing to me hearing-aids. Wonder what they wanted, survey or selling summat I suppose?
Got to the bridge and it was getting late, so I thought I’d drop the bread down off the bridge to the ducks.
I was amazed that there were so few birds there today. A chap stood watching me told me they had done a cull last week, he saw them doing it.
That’s not nice.
I wandered back into town to catch me last L9 bus.
Getting busier as the day went on in town it seemed.
There are now three saxophone player street artists on the stretch of road from slab square to the mall.
I thought I’d caught one in the photo above but missed him. You can see h equipment on the floor on the left though. (Failed again!)
Plenty of traffic about as I approached the bus stop.
Got on the bus and at a later stop the chap form the 4th floor of the flats got on and we had a little natter.
Nice chap, he’s the one who usually tells me a story from his passed, but didn’t today.
Got in WC’d, put me bits away, made sure I’d got the right medications ready and laptop on to update this load of waffle.
Got me nosh ready. Frikadellen, pulled pork balls, sweet potatoes in batter, beetroot in vin & orange, baby carrots and bread thins.
Followed by a banana, mandarins in orange jelly – there was to be a pot of orange yoghurt as well, but that had gone sour when I tried it, uergh!
After much hassle getting the DVD to work on the telly – I fell asleep watching it.
Kept waking up in between weird dreams, until 0300hrs when I had to go to the WC to tend to normal functions and clean up ‘Little Inchy’ who had got excited and started to bleed all over me. More flaming washing to do again! Tsk!

To the WC and lost a few minutes of the day on the throne, went into the
opening the widow and straight own outside to the car park.
Got on the wrong one – dropped off in Sherwood and caught a ‘normal’ bus into town’.
direction of Birmingham.
Once I was on lower ground the winds dropped a lot thankfully and although nippy in town the sun still tried to come out and the snow and rain dissipated altogether.
I walked down Clinton Street to the store.
Came out and wandered through the Christmas stalls and into the book store down the way a bit.
weather as I had been warned by other tenants who’d lived in the flats for years – so I allowed myself to buy two more books!
Got on the L9 and some timetables were near the driver and I grabbed one. As the bus passed near Bentinck Court, I took photographs though the bus window as we passed by them.
They have just been modernised and updated. They are the same as us, for the elderly
I WC’d, put the fodder away and feeling a bit perkier I made some nosh.
Went to make another cuppa and the view from the kitchen window was startling, so I tooketh a photograph of it.
He then helped me get the mat laid properly. I gave him his birthday present. He agreed to pick me up next Tuesday to go to the launderette and departed.
Started the graphics for me latest post.
Took me hours and hours, to get them something like right, but I enjoyed doing them like.
Beefy oven chips, chilli with black bean sauce and the last two cheesy cobs, followed by orange jelly and spray-cream.
Poddled to Wilko’s and got some tape, half-price Dettol spray disinfectant and asked a lady if they had DVD cleaners, she pointed the directions out to them for me but when i to where they should be on the shelves there were none.
park and walked up the footpath to the top.
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At last set about putting the last touches to Marissa’s graphic and here it is.
Woke at 0410 hrs, feeling a bit sorry fer missen again. Coughing, Little Inchy a mess, and finding it hard to concentrate for some reason?
Out to the bus stop and I ‘d missed the City bus. So I caught the one to Arnold instead, of course this meant I wouldn’t get me artificial flowers today.
in the shelter and caught a bus into Arnold and called at the Asda superstore.
Got back just as the rain started in earnest.
Had a good read while waiting for it to finish, about an hour.
Put the kettle on and noticed out of the kitchen window far away, two large birds with what looked like pink plumage on a roof…
The rain started to get serious and the wind joined in.
I needed to make room in the freezer for a big bag of chips on offer I’ve got coming tomorrow, so took a look at what was in there to use.
Set me plate out and this is how it looks.
Made me cuppa and let it get cold while finishing weekend diary and starting this one.
Much cheered up but not over-confident I risked feeding some pigeons outside the offices as I left.
A nice touch as I got inside proper, they were having a minute’s silence for the victims families friends and relatives of France.
I walked along taking a couple more photographs for the Facebook page.
As I left by the end entrance someone had dropped something edible and the pigeons were having a feast of it!
It was so amazing for any time of day, but at this busy time and Christmas shopping time too…
I’m back as Arnie said.
saw these two folks with their dogs, amongst many others, that stood out to me. My knees were a lot better than I expected, glad to say. No sticks today.
Added some slices of pepper, beetroot and eggs on top of the nosh and was soon tucking into it.
Out and into the kitchen for a cuppa to take me medications with.
cupboards! Opened a cupboard door and was hit in the mush by the cold blowing draught coming through and out into the kitchen.
Finished yesterdays diary and posted it off. Started this one and did the graphics for the header and thought of the day.
Got me nosh, last of the BBQ sausages, beef pasty beetroot and garden peas. 9/10 for this one.
Dunc posed looking out of the kitchen window. The light wasn’t too good but I caught him looking rather thoughtful I thought?
Grabbing one of the potatoes I’d just bought in the kitchen.
When the film had finished they were cooked nice and brown. Had the last few of the Anya potatoes and two chicken drumsticks with them.
Met with several other tenants also waiting in the reception area for the bus to arrive.
Out to the bus and got on the
Near the way into the store I came across these here Bling jewellery items on sale.
I seemed to have attracted some interest from the staff, and then a Security Guard by taking these photographicalisations of the gems on show.
Got to the bus stop after a wander around for a bit and caught the L9 back to the flats.
As we came up Winchester Street hill I heard an emergency vehicles Klaxons coming from behind the bus and caught the police car through the front screen as it belted past blues and twos going.
Put me bits away and got the spuds on the boil to have later with me nosh.
Still beautiful though.
Made and had me nosh:
Got my drier going and nipped back upstairs to continue me sorting of the paperwork for half an hour or so, found some more old photo’s to add to the many found earlier. Memories!
Did a bit of cleaning in the kitchen and got me nosh started.
Then got some lemon curd tarts ready to have for dessert after me nosh.


