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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 15, 2012
It was such a lovely day yesterday I went for a walk. I had telephoned my chemist to see if my prescription was ready for collection and it was. I telephone them whenever I need to apply for my prescription to be re-submitted to my doctor’s surgery and they do it for me. They would also deliver my medications to my house but in that case I would need to remain at home. They won’t simply post them through the letterbox as they need to be sure they go to the right person. I get twelve weeks supply each time. The medication I am referring to are my hormone tablets, something I have to take for the rest of my life. So off I went on my walk collecting my prescription on the way. It has been quite some time since I went out simply for a walk, I suppose I have been too busy. The forecast had been blustery winds and some heavy rain showers but I think the rain must have already passed because it was sunny with just a few clouds. The wind was there though! If it is windy I tie my hair back in a pony-tail else it gets all over the place. My workload has dropped off dramatically this past week although I did receive two requests to do a small job, however those ‘small’ jobs, I discovered after talking to the callers, weren’t small in the least so I turned them both down. I have reached that point in my working life whereby I set myself a limit on what I will do and I can choose which work I will take on board. Well after all I am over 66 years of age! I need to do more walking and perhaps less work, especially on nice days such as this. It is such a lovely day.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 9, 2012
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I woke up yesterday morning quite late. I had not taken myself to bed the previous night, Friday, as I simply wasn’t tired and stayed up throughout until dawn and had a rather boring day. I am still not feeling too good and so it was that I wasn’t all that surprised in discovering a couple of cold sores around my lips. Even though I arose late I still had another good night’s sleep which is I suppose a bonus. My sleep still gets broken however but I awake refreshed. This whole weekend has been a washout as far as the weather goes but at last we have gotten the rain we badly needed. In my current state of health though some sunshine would have been nice but like my parents always used to say, ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it’. I must get around to purchasing that hover mower I talked about a few posts ago for I can see my other mowers again struggling to cut what will be often wet grass which is already starting to grow tall again and me totally wacked too! Maybe that’s what caused me to end up weak and exposed to the cold? At least the weather has gotten a tad warmer this week after last week’s cold dip following the previous unusually hot spell. I said the British climate was crazy at times. So far I have no plans for the week but whatever is on the cards I will try to enjoy it. I must get around to do some shopping too as I am fast running out of toiletries and one or two items of make-up. I usually buy my toiletries and make-up in bulk with much of it lasting more than six months. In fact I have a lot of make-up that will last for years. It is all sealed as new of course so it should be as good as new when opened. It is the more often used things that need replenishing, lip-stick, foundation, some eye make-up, moisturising cream and other such things for instance toothpaste, soaps, hair shampoo that get used more quickly. I hate shopping for just the odd item, it seems a waste of time going to the shops and returning with one or two things when I can return with plenty.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 28, 2012
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Monday turned out to be a really good day. I got back to the old lady’s house and fitted her wall lights and new bell push with only a minor problem concerning the bell push. Well something had to be problematical given what happened on Friday. If I didn’t know any better I’d swear her house was jinxed! Whilst there I received another request to do a job some miles away in the next town and that turned out to be quite lucrative and easy to do. Swings and roundabouts I guess. I finally got home around 2.30 and fixed myself a snack after which I took my guitar outside and sat in the sunshine-soaked patio playing for an hour. A neighbour was having a glass and brick-constructed conservatory demolished ready for a single-storey extension to be built in its place, something that required planning permission from the local council and which had been granted last year. In order to gain permission to build it is necessary to post a formal proposition so that people living in the immediate area can oppose it if they consider it might cause a problem of one sort or another. In most cases like this one there are no reasonable objections. I sat far enough away from the work in progress for it to be a ‘nuisance noise pollution‘ as it were and my music drowned out the sound anyway. Before long they had demolished most of the structure. I don’t know what it is with me but I love watching the progress of a building being erected, the various stages leading up to that final finish. I shall be taking an interest over the next few weeks as the work progresses. I do have an interest in buildings, in their architecture, they are one of the success stories of the human race I think and some of them are really imaginative in their construction. They are beautiful things in their own way, well I think so anyway. I heard that we are going to continue having warm weather at least until Friday. Currently the temperature is twice the seasonal average at 19, 20 and even 21 degrees celsius. I suppose next week will see a marked change to cooler days. I’m happy with that as long as it doesn’t get too cold!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 1, 2012
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Whenever someone asks me to do a job for them I note it down in a diary. I seldom forget that I have work to do but on Tuesday morning I received a call from a lady who asked if I was coming as I said I would. Fortunately I was dressed and just about putting the finishing touches to my make-up when she called and was able to get there within a half hour. She had called me around eight-thirty but as is usual for me I wouldn’t have arrived until nine o’clock anyway. I could have said nothing about my forgetting the appointment but I apologised for my error. I arrived a few minutes after nine and did the work for her. I have worked for this lady before and she is nice to work for. She had done a little electrical job in her kitchen and asked if I would check it out. I couldn’t have done a better job myself! She told me that she had wanted to be a mechanic in her youth but couldn’t get into the industry. She is only six years younger than myself! There were other electrical jobs that needed doing but she confessed she hadn’t the knowledge to do them and that is why I was called. Later we chatted some and she was asking about my interests and when I mentioned that I play guitar she took me upstairs and showed me two lovely instruments that she owned but couldn’t play. Both were way out of tune and one, a twelve-stringed guitar, had a string missing, the other, a six-stringed instrument had two of its strings wrapped on the wrong posts so that the strings crossed each other on the machine head. She asked if I could tune it so I did a quick tune-up and played a song or two. It needs the strings fitted correctly and tuning properly. I also noticed that some strings were wrapped counter-clockwise and some clockwise which makes adjusting the tension awkward. They should all rotate the same way so it is easier to remember if you are tightening them or loosening them! She asked if I could teach her to play but I explained that it would take some time just to learn the basics. I may get back to her later if I’ve the time. I’ve now got to try to remember to do that. As we get older we find that we sometimes forget things, it’s unavoidable I suppose. It is one thing writing down appointments in a diary, it’s another remembering to read the diary or even remembering where you left it! I am alright on the last bit as my diary is in my bag. Now where did I place my bag? LOL.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 16, 2011
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This post will be number 1208 if my calculations are correct. That means a lot of posts for my readers to mull over if they’ve an inclination. Lots to read to be sure. I wonder what happens to all the posts we’ve written in the past, many of which have no responding comments and yet we plod on and write more. Of course they sit in the memory of some colossal computer located somewhere in the world like books on a library shelf collecting dust. 1208 posts represent something like 1 to 2 Mb of space I would guess, not exactly a huge amount but that only accounts for the text. Pictures will take far more space but even so in this day and age it won’t be an enormous amount relatively speaking on an individual basis. I suppose the amount we write would be impossible to read by everyone so if we miss something that’s the end of it. Having categories and tags occasionally brings old posts back into circulation to be read in reference to new posts written by others and sometimes by ourselves. Posts are there to be read of course but bot everyone reads the same material do they?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 10, 2011
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I did the jobs I had planned for Monday and throughout the day received more calls for work. I was rather tired at the end of the day. I had Tuesday free to myself and was able to grab a lie in bed until late in the morning. Wednesday saw me working again. This year has been quiet compared to more recent years as far as work goes but as we approach Christmas I can almost guarantee it will get busier. I have no idea why that is so but over the years that has always been the case. I shall be starting my 67 th year on this planet in a couple of week’s time and I still feel able to work, although I try to limit what I do not wishing to overdo things. With that in mind I am sometimes afraid of Monday mornings, a time when I get most of my calls for work! Life goes on and so I follow it as best I can and whilst I am still able. Songs have been written about Monday mornings and I guess many people have reservations about the start of a new week, having those Monday morning blues after presumably enjoying their weekends. When I worked for a company I always looked forward to Friday afternoons and the prospect of a weekend free from work but in reality I continued working over the weekend albeit at home. I suppose the thought of returning to our occupational duties isn’t so much that we’ve got to but because it takes us away from those things we’d prefer to be doing. Now that I have been self-employed for more than fourteen years the thought of returning to work on a Monday morning isn’t quite the same, or shouldn’t be because I can decide not to work if I so desire. However, the momentary dislike at the thought soon dissipates when I open my toolbox. Monday mornings can be switched to Tuesdays but the work still needs doing.
Shirley Anne
- Thank God It’s Monday!!! (mzmawissa.wordpress.com)
- Come Monday (rockycropfarm.com)
- Manic Monday Mornings… (multipurposemom.com)
- Monday, Monday (minkyweasel.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 7, 2011
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The latest findings from ‘experts’, if we believe them is that there is an increased risk, to the tune of 50%, of getting breast cancer if we drink wine. Arguments against these findings point to the numbers of French women who have drunk wine all their lives show no such increase in the likelihood of getting cancer or have proven to have it. Over the years we have been bombarded with all sorts of findings from experts warning us of one danger or another to our health and well-being. Sometimes the results of these findings are subsequently reversed when apparently some anomaly has been discovered which exposes the incorrect original assessment to re-evaluation. Almost always though there is no admission of error. Did you know that butter, eggs, white bread, cheese, full fat milk, red meat, wine (any alcohol) and many other things are bad for your health? Well of course they are if over-indulging in their consumption. Everything in moderation but keeping a healthy respect for the things we know border on the risky should be a common-sense attitude and philosophy. I for one am tired of all these ‘findings’ and for being treated in such a patronising way by those who deem themselves the keepers of the nation’s health. Let me make the decisions based on sensible information but don’t keep pounding into my head.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 18, 2011
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I don’t know what it is about me but lately I find I am in the ‘I can’t be bothered ‘ phase again. Every so often I go through these phases and I am not sure why. I guess I could say that I am bored with life and my situation but I have the power to change my circumstances, it’s just that I cannot be bothered! I suppose I am happiest when doing something, going somewhere, meeting someone and I do these things often and yet I still find I can’t be bothered at times. The other day I spent an hour or two in my local pub, drinking only soft drinks because I couldn’t make up my mind if I wanted alcohol or not. In the end I treated myself to a glass (half-pint) of lager and then just simply left to come back home, taking the long route back so that I could be out in the fresh air a little longer. I was in no rush to get home but when I finally did get back I set about processing some of the recordings I’d made earlier. I need more practice in recording my music. I am not happy with what I have done but posted them online anyway until I get the chance to redo them. Knowing me, at this moment that isn’t an option! Possibly I should concentrate on one song at a time until I get it the way I want it, which is probably what I will do. Anyway later in the evening I decided to buy the trial copies of the software I have been using to record and process video and another to record and process audio. I had a problem getting the key for the audio program from the manufacturer which was driving me quite mad. I had paid for both programs but only one had been authenticated as being purchased. Eventually I gave up and went to bed. The following morning, Friday, I had another go after I had received an email message containing the key. All is now well. I get so frustrated with computer/Internet issues when something seemingly easy becomes a nightmare when things go wrong. I was more annoyed by the fact that this particular web site has no email address to which one can write concerning any problems but only a help page where most popular questions are answered. Isn’t it always the case that the questions you may want to ask are never there in the list? In my current frame of mind I was about to blow my top but thankfully I kept my cool instead. Is it my age? Is it just that I am fed-up with my life? Is it just that I get bored too easily? Is it something else? Whatever the cause it will pass, it usually does. Hopefully.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 2, 2011
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Yesterday was my eldest sons birthday anniversary, he was 29. 29! Notice I said anniversary? Well it couldn’t be his birthday, that was 29 years ago! It’s funny how we use our language, accepting as normal they way we use it. I bought him a small gift and a card to show I remembered. Now I have to be truthful here because although I do remember these anniversary dates, occasionally I don’t remember them until the day is close. On Monday my youngest son brought up the subject of his brother’s birthday by telling me what he had bought for him as a small gift. I said to him then that I had forgotten that it was imminent and the following day I bought the card and gift. That’s the way it goes. On Tuesday, the first day back at work after the extended weekend, I had the task of doing the internal wiring and laying an electrical supply to an outbuilding some 30 metres down the garden which took most of the day to complete and was ‘helped’ by the man of the house, actually he was more of a hindrance at times but he eventually allowed me to get on with the job alone. Part of the job had entailed lifting two small floorboards in the house which he had attempted to do the day before my arrival but had made a bit of a mess about it. To be fair the couple have not been it this house long so they are still discovering things about it, like the floorboards being covered by sheets of hard board over which the underlay and carpets were laid. For those who don’t know about hard board, it is very difficult to lift intact once it has been nailed to the floor. That being the case the poor guy had to replace the lifted board and that kept him busy for a couple of hours whilst I got on with the electrical work. His wife returned home mid-afternoon and offered me something to eat. Normally I don’t eat during the day at work but this time I accepted the offer. We chatted some and joked about the problems he was having refitting the floor, he openly admitting to his lack of ability in practical things and we laughed about that too! They are the kind of people who are easy to get along with and it was a pleasure working for them, plus I got some nice sandwiches! LOL. That’s the way it goes sometimes but not always unfortunately.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 5, 2011
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A few days ago I received an email from Jenny who shares the responsibility of I guess monitoring and looking after the interests at T-Central. She asked if she could place a link to my humble blog in an article she wrote for the T-Central website. I had no reservations in allowing her to include a link to my blog so that is what she did. I realised that I might get some visitors from subscribers to T-Central and indeed that was the case. I hope anyone visiting my site will not be disappointed. Although I am a transitioned girl I don’t major on my past preferring to write about my everyday existence instead. For me, the past is done with and serves no useful purpose in my life now. I have posted articles regarding my journey to where I am now but they are there more for the benefit of others rather than myself. In my life I no longer talk about being transsexual because I am not, I have transitioned, I am a woman. Simple as that. I feel that life is too short to be always looking back because for me the future is far more important. I won’t say my journey in life to where I am now has been easy because it hasn’t always been so but life is full of challenges and I am happy that I have come through it all unscathed. Life is what you make of it. You do what you have to do to survive and be happy. I want to thank all those who have recently visited my blog for the first time, not because it has boosted my readership, that is just a bonus. I encourage you to comment on anything you find interesting as the mood takes you.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 30, 2011
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They say variety is the spice of life and I tend to agree. Doing the same old thing day in and day out has got to be boring. People dream of long holidays in the Bahamas, the Seychelles or the Maldives and to be sure these places are paradises on Earth but I’ll wager it gets boring being there for long periods even so. In our day-to-day living it is nice to have something new to do or at least a change from routine. Yesterday I had some variety in my day. I got up with nothing special to do in my mind and out of the blue received a call to fix a light fitting. A very small job, a short distance to travel (four miles) but easy money. Just as I arrived at the house I received another call to replace an outdoor floodlight at a house some five miles from home. I did the first job in a matter of minutes and drove back into town to purchase a replacement floodlight. Driving along the coastal road there isn’t really much to see except sand dunes but as the road nears the town there are open views of the beach and sea. It was late in the morning but there was hardly a soul about. As I got into the town centre there were very few people on the streets. Quite eerie! I purchased the light and drove home. It would be another hour before I would go and fit the light. The job took a little while to do but there was no hurry as I worked in the bright sunshine. Driving back home was pretty much uneventful but the route took me across ‘The Moss’, open fields and countryside just around Southport. It was a pleasant drive with no other vehicles ahead of me and none behind. I got home and prepared my lunch. It was now one o’clock. E had been doing some chores and was now sitting at my old computer mumbling about how she was having trouble connecting to the Internet. This machine was never constructed with Wi-Fi but did have a Wi-Fi unit that utilised a spare port, however even that ceased to work a couple of years ago so the computer has to be physically connected to the router using an Ethernet cable. I ceased using the machine once I bought a new one but it is handy in an emergency and in this case whilst E is waiting delivery of a replacement battery and charger unit for her own computer. She joined me for lunch and we watched tv in the process. E had to do some shopping in the afternoon so I set about clearing some rubbish in our front garden and bringing in the waste bins from the street. Wednesday is garbage day for us. I then went into the rear garden, cleared some weeds from a flowerbed and set to with a hammer on some bits of concrete we had stored in order to make some rubble to put into the brick base I constructed the day before. I did that and ceased doing any more work. Back into the house to collect my guitar and fix myself a soft drink and out again to play some music whilst sitting in the patio. Some of my songs were being accompanied with birdsong, at least it seemed that way. I am sure the birds enjoy the more melodic and quieter songs and join in with me! After an hour of that I took the instrument back indoors but returned to sit outside in the sunshine. Later I did some reading and sewing. Yes sewing! I can sew. Have been able to sew since childhood. Today, who knows what may happen? I do know that I have a job of work to do locally and I’ve no idea how long it will take or what it will entail but I am sure it won’t be like any other job I’ve done. That is the beauty of my work, although jobs are similar at times they are always slightly different and challenging. Yes, I like variety in my work and in my leisure time too.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 12, 2011
Yesterday I awoke full of beans and ready for anything but as things turned out I did next to nothing! To be honest I was totally out of the game and really tired. Perhaps this was due to my night out on Friday but I am thinking otherwise. I don’t usually have feelings of tiredness the day after a night out. I think my workload has caught up with me. That being the case I thought it wise to simply rest for the day. Tomorrow I have electrical work to do and the same on Tuesday and Wednesday, hopefully all of them restricted to a couple of hours each. I am not sure what I will be doing today even though there are plenty of things to do.
The weather has been sunny but cooler than expected because of the wind so sitting out in the garden hasn’t really been an option which is such a shame because it looks inviting! E has been working in the garden though regardless of the wind. She doesn’t seem to mind the weather when she has things to do in the garden as long as it isn’t very bad or raining. It does make a difference when the sun is shining.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 11, 2011
These days the weeks seem to fly by. I suppose it’s an age thing! I remember in my youth how the days and weeks seemed to last forever but with the passing of time we realise just how short the days really are. It is Saturday once more and I awoke bright as a penny and rearing to go, although I’m not sure where! Yesterday nobody turned up to finish the paving in the rear garden. Again E’s nephew has let us down after promising he would remain here, that is come every day until the job was finished, only a matter of two days really. No phone call to explain. He is very unreliable. I most definitely will not be employing him in future, that is after he has completed the jobs I have already agreed with him to do, laying the paving in the two gardens. So yesterday morning we were waiting for the delivery of the windows for the garage and they arrived just before noon. That being the case I decided to dine out for lunch as we had the rest of the day free. I had been to do a job earlier in the morning and just wanted a rest. We drove the 15 or so miles to one of our favourite places, in fact the one my friend and I had visited the Friday before. We had a really good time there and were introduced to the new manager as regular patrons. He was a very tall guy, around 6’6″ and towered over our table whilst we spoke. One of the reasons we visit there, apart from the good food, is the friendliness of the staff. We drove back home after a couple of hours but on the way I asked E to drop me off at my local pub as I hadn’t been there for quite some time. I didn’t spend much money there as many of my friends insisted on buying me drinks! I am very popular in that place for some reason! LOL. I returned home after a couple of hours but it appears I sat on the settee and fell asleep! Mmm…..I wonder why? LOL. Anyways E woke me three hours later and told me it was time for bed! Gosh, I am a naughty girl sometimes. Whilst I was working at the job yesterday morning I had the need to use a very small Allen key and realised the two sets of keys that I have had been lent to the young joiner in a house we were both working in earlier in the week. I managed to call him this morning and as chance would have it he has to pass my house to get to another job he is working on today. It’s funny how things work out sometimes isn’t it? Well it’s Saturday again and……….
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 9, 2011
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I went to do my job yesterday morning and to my surprise I was back home by 11.30. There was no sign of anyone having been to do the paving but it appears that E’s nephew was having staff problems. The guy he works with doesn’t work on Wednesdays for reasons best known to himself and a sub-contractor E’s nephew uses occasionally didn’t turn up to carry out work he had given him elsewhere. This meant E’s nephew was hard pressed to fulfill his own commitments including our job. He did call and he did some levelling of the ground, removing soil in the process but he was unable to start laying the paving slabs. Hopefully he and his friend will turn up today to continue with the work. After they have completed the work in the rear garden they will start laying the paving slabs in the front garden. This meant that E and I had to rebuild part of the dry-stone walling we had demolished when clearing the area for a brick wall to be built a few weeks ago. So before lunch, E and I set about doing that and also laying a completely new top layer of stones along the length of the 6 metre long wall. We then began to level out the soil above. As it was almost 2 o’clock we left off working and returned an hour later when we transported many bags of soil from the rear garden and placed that on the raised ground contained by the dry-stone wall and levelled that soil out too. We also did some filtering of the soil in the lower bed in front of the wall. Much more needs to be done in this bed but it is slowly taking shape having been neglected because of the volume of work we have been doing elsewhere. After our evening meal both E and I were in the rear garden and I happened to glance over the garden wall whilst standing on the patio. Our neighbour was riding around her garden testing out her bicycle. I waved to her and she came closer and asked how we were getting along with the patio. I invited her to call around and see for herself. We hadn’t met socially before and we didn’t even know her name even though her garden adjoins ours. Her house is on the main road which is about 100 metres away so although we are neighbours we are not exactly close! To my surprise she took up my offer and called around five minutes later. She was very impressed by what we had done in the garden as we showed her around. It turns out that her house was built in the year 1872, fives years before ours and that the ground on which our house is built actually belonged to the owner of her house at that time and was used for the stabling of horses. The land was sold off to pay a debt and our house was built there in 1877. Her house, which is now split into two homes, used to be just one very large house before it became a semi-detached property in 1920. I often wonder what it must have been like in the area when these houses were built. Local history is fascinating to me. So many changes have been made over the years to the various properties around about, including ours!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 28, 2011
As I promised (to myself) I removed the tap on the front of the house and repositioned it on the garage wall, with some help from E. I have never been taught how to do plumbing but I have done plenty of it in the past, some associated with my job as an electrician. The job took a couple of hours which brought us to lunchtime. I had to get a wash and change my clothes but by the time I had done that is was too late to eat as I had to drive into Liverpool to keep my dental appointment. When I arrived there were very few people waiting to be seen and I found myself sitting in the dentist’s chair after only ten minutes or so. Five minutes later I was making my way back home! I was hungry when I got back home but I was told by the dentist not to eat for a couple of hours. I poured myself a drink and sat playing my guitar for a while. Later, our eldest son and his wife dropped by to put more of their belongings in storage in one of our spare rooms. It was around 6.30 before we could prepare our meal. I went to bed feeling rather tired and a bit washed-out. Today E and I are going to purchase the materials we need to convert the downstairs toilet/cloakroom into one with a shower in it.
Shirley Anne
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It was such a lovely day yesterday I went for a walk. I had telephoned my chemist to see if my prescription was ready for collection and it was. I telephone them whenever I need to apply for my prescription to be re-submitted to my doctor’s surgery and they do it for me. They would also deliver my medications to my house but in that case I would need to remain at home. They won’t simply post them through the letterbox as they need to be sure they go to the right person. I get twelve weeks supply each time. The medication I am referring to are my hormone tablets, something I have to take for the rest of my life. So off I went on my walk collecting my prescription on the way. It has been quite some time since I went out simply for a walk, I suppose I have been too busy. The forecast had been blustery winds and some heavy rain showers but I think the rain must have already passed because it was sunny with just a few clouds. The wind was there though! If it is windy I tie my hair back in a pony-tail else it gets all over the place. My workload has dropped off dramatically this past week although I did receive two requests to do a small job, however those ‘small’ jobs, I discovered after talking to the callers, weren’t small in the least so I turned them both down. I have reached that point in my working life whereby I set myself a limit on what I will do and I can choose which work I will take on board. Well after all I am over 66 years of age! I need to do more walking and perhaps less work, especially on nice days such as this. It is such a lovely day.
