Good Morning everyone from sunny South of ??
Think you have shocked all GMers with the duvet comment, Gelisa. It doesn’t take long to forget chilly nights once a heatwave overcomes everyone. Nothing worse than not being able to sleep due to heat. Hope that MrG’s emergency kit arrives very quickly.
Alizarin have they spotted that you may be planning a replacement (by stealth) of all your body parts in the near future? Or maybe you’re truly a Bionic Woman. You’re certainly very brave and positive - you should be the poster girl for that hospital!
Now…to the other and far more trivial extreme. My Dermatologist visit yesterday gave me a clean bill of health, but I wanted her to assess some annoying sun damage on my nose and treat a cherry angioma on a boob. I’m not in the least bit vain - having had a Mum who was. Very! But I honestly don’t want to have any more marks on the few bits of me that remain blemish free. So, let the good times roll. I braced myself as she blasted my nose with liquid nitrogen. You would have been entertained at my waving toes, which is what I do when something is painful and I really must not yell. After that ‘treat’ we moved to another theatre where she put protective goggles (total blackness) over my eyes, to meet the total stuffiness of my mask and then in short bursts I was allowed yet another fun few minutes of wild toe twirling to help relieve the darkness and the laser attack!
It was just above 40 degrees when I walked back to DH and the car, since we were inland and an hour from the sea. He had found a comfortable seat under a tree. We opened up the doors and boot and then sat under some huge mulberry trees at a pavement café, for me and the car to calm down.
Our dear Canadian friend’s widow is back in the village from Switzerland. This time with her DD and SiL, DS and DiL, 3 GC’s, 2 dogs and their Kitten. She told us it’s a happy travelling circus when they are all together. Her children still aren’t able to process their Father’s death. To date he lies in a mortuary in Canada, a Red List country with no idea when travel or normal life will re-start. No funeral arrangements, no family gathering, almost as if he has just disappeared from their lives. So yesterday morning she told us they had bought a fabulous tissue air balloon, and they wanted to write messages on it and send it off at twilight from his favourite beach in his memory….and would we come? We were so thrilled to share that.
To see the balloon lift off in just a faint breeze from a deserted beach, and the glow as it drifted out to sea was really moving, but it made us all feel so much better to be able to say our goodbyes in a place that made him happiest.
We had so much catching up to do and there was good coffee and chocolate brownies to eat back at their house, so I was a bit wired and didn’t go to bed until 2.30. I shall feel the call of a steamer chair and cushions in the garden this afternoon, or possibly better - since my nose needs to be out of the sun for 10 days! - a proper siesta in an air-conditioned bedroom after lunch. We could relax in the sitting room, but the full-on snoring of our dogs does spoil the mood a bit. ?
Have a really good day, dear peeps. And if it feels too hot to do stuff, that’s probably because it really is. Stay safe, stay calm, stay cool, hydrated, rested and, if necessary, stay somewhere with feet elevated and eyes closed. My Dermo says Factor 50 all over your faces, please! There, it’s not just me nagging you.
Hugs to all ????♀️
