Good morning Mick and all GN's on a still dry but rather grey morning in North Yorkshire. It actually has not been a "good" morning, as I was just getting out of bed, with thoughts of getting the bedding in the washer etc and suddenly such horrible cramp in my thigh, that I couldnt help yelping and hope that I didnt wake my upstairs neighbour. Will have to apologise when I see him! It was incredibly painful and I literally could not even move the leg to ease it for quite a while. When it did ease off I had to carry on getting dressed, but thinking of every move I was making as had two more episodes just moving in a particular way. so much so that am still hobbling round with one sock on, as I darent risk putting the other one on so far!! So it has taken me some time to get going, but the washer is going full speed and I have cheered the morning by listening to Bach before 7. To cap it all caught my foot on something and made it bleed, so coupled with the normal aches and pains I am a bit of a walking wounded at the moment!
Whatever plans I had decided on for today will now be measured against the likelihood of more cramp and care taken to avoid dodgy movements. So got the washer going, and after I have done the normal housework stuff I must gird up the loins to try and blitz this wretched dresser stuff. It is going on for too long now, but the danger is that I just feel like chucking the rest of the paperwork and stuff away, but there are probably things like receipts or letters from the council etc that I do need to keep. It is still taking me time to remember that dustbin day is on a tuesday not a wednesday, so need my reminder calendar brought up to date. I usually put not only the actual date of appointments etc on the calendar on but often add a reminder for about a week before, that such and such an appointment is next week, to give me chance to get a bit more organised. Todays must do is to collect my prescription as am almost out of an important one. At the moment there is a bit of a difficulty. I am usually organised about prescription and order at the correct time, but over the last couple of months, there has been difficulty getting some things and so there have been times when I have been quite anxious especially re my diabetic tablets, when they have not had any in and it has got very close to having none left, so this makes you want to order a bit earlier to be sure of having enough tablets. But this practise wont let you order too early, so there can be a worrying few days when they are ringing around to try and get you what you need. Apart from that nothing I need in an urgent mode, so have no excuse to avoid the dresser stuff. Nothing exciting but quite happy to have an ordinary day, and try and sort some bits out.
Glad you had a good result yesterday Mick and hope you meet a few friends today.Pantglas just been reckoning up how long ago I was in roumania and Bulgaria and it was in 1964 or 65. At that time the roumanians were more open and prepared to speak to foreigners, but the bulgarians were obviously more worried about being seen consorting with the enemy and while never rude , were very chary about talking to you or spending time in your company. I enjoyed a lot of the countryside there but was never able to get at all close with any local people. Must be very different now. Sar53 Hope you are enjoying your day now. I only went down as far as Istanbul but loved it and wandering round the souk etc. remember the lovely Aya Sofia and we knew the consul and went to have lunch with them, where they had a very english looking green lawn in total contrast to the surrounding areas. Long time ago.Grandmabatty, hope that all goes well at the clinic and that the x ray is just a bit cloudy or difficult to read. Hope you can hear good news very soon and they check it quickly.
Well there are ominous sounds from the washer, lots of banging and knocking about. think the sheets might have got tangled into one big clump. It did that a while ago, so must investigate cautiously. dont want to open the door to a deluge of water.
Have a good day everyone
. The stairlift chap is coming to see him at lunchtime and we’re hoping they will give us a date for the work to be done. I’ve no idea how long it will take to install. 
