Morning Mick and all GN's on this miserable very dark and wet sunday in North Yorkshire. Can hear the rain on the window, it feels very cold, and cant even see the outline of the tree. Have not put good as it woud be definitely the wrong expression for how I am feeling right now. Having had a very poor night, little sleep, with added wretched cramp, and now I have given up , and am waiting for precious Bach and coffee to restart my morning and improve life. I havent dared to go into the shower yet as my leg is still juddering and painful. Things can only get better (cant they?)
Yesterday a quietish day, The weather was cold but better than friday, and so it was very busy in the town. Didnt go very early, but got The Yorkshire Post and a few bits and my goodness it was very busy in the market and heaving in Cafe Nero's. Well with the way the weather had been so cold on friday , everyone seemed to have come out to grab things while it was dry. I was pleased to get my Yorkshire Post, called in the town hall lower bit where another little pet group had a craft fair to raise fund and was pleased to see the doggy fridge magnet man there. When I went into cafe nero there were queues stretching outisde the doorand it was frantic, with the staff at full stretch and with an added saturday girl they were still struggling to keep up with business. I couldnt have stood for such a log time so went and found a table up in the back corner, where I was happy to just sit and wait for the queue to die down a bit. Lots of people with dogs, so I toldthem about the man beingin the town hall place with the fridge magnets, and hope that brought him a bit more business and everyone I spoke to said they planned to go across and look, so it always feels good to be able to pass on anything nice to people . I heard the manageress say she would have to step back from serving as they were running out of cups etc and she needed to do some washing up. When I eventually got my coffee and apricot croissent treat she said it had been chaos from 7am and never stopped all morning. They usually get a bit of a lull and are able to restock and tidy up etc, but it went on solidly all morning and the new saturday girl did well but was rather a tough start to her new job.
In the afternoon, whilst taking breaks to have a read of the paper and listen to radio 3, I was wading through paperwork, looking for the missing Flanders and Swann book and ripping off address and anything private and then ditching lots of paperwork. No luck with the F@S book, but found 3 useful things to add to the programme including Warning by Jenny Joseph anda poem that I had written myself, plus another rather good thing written by an 85 year old lady in usa about if she had her life over again and it would be more pleasures and less boring stuff. I agree, I agree. Whilst I am struggling with various things at the moment, if I cannot sleep, it is good to look back and think of the many things that I have done that have given me life and pleasure over the years. I may not get to Macchu Picu now but I have sailed and travelled to many places, sung in lovely concerts, met a lot of great people, so have much to look back on with joy. Even those odd times when the choice did not turn out to be very good, it was my choice and I learnt from it. Fingers crossed that I can continue in the same vein.
One thing I found in my pile of papers was the appointment reminder for this next tuesday afternoon , for another cancer treatment, which I had carefully forgot about until now. Not looking forward to the treatment, but hoping things are ok. Fingers crossed that I get the results before christmas, good or bad. I dont like waiting for results for things like this, nothing I can do to hurry them up or change them which adds to the feelings of stress that I am not good at removing. The yoga lady has reminded me of some exercises that I used to do and think I shall have to begin a pattern of doing them in the morning to concentrate the mind and try and get myself into the way of using relaxation techniques to keep me going. Well it is a little bit lighter now , but not what I want to see, rain and feeling very cold. I am sorry for all the people today who were doing a christmas food market in the high street. Unless it improves a lot, dont think they will do well at all. For many of them , they are little business people who put in lots of effort to make things like honey etc and lovely home made sausages and a venison man comes , so I know it is usually a good revenue for them, but today wont be their best, as cant see any casual trade coming by, just those people who will be going especially to get things that they know about. I expect cafe nero will be doing a roaring trade in take out coffees for the poor frozen stall holders today.
I shall have no incentive to go out at all , and will at least have my cheering radio programmes of desert island discs and private passions to listen to, whilst I plough through more piles of books and music. However I am determined to rejig the piles of books as I check through them, so that at the least I will end up with books in the right categories, and even though I havent got the wretched dresser out and a decent bookcase added, my books will be at the ready in the correct groups. I shall have to be strict about putting books into piles, and NOT opening them and finding myself sat on the floor reading things with the time going by and nothing sorted.
I also intend to get my calendar up to date with appointments etc., and must find my MOT documents and check that it is the 8th December and ring the garage up and book it in, so that I am covered. So whilst I have the files out, if I am in the right mood I am going to check through them, and making a note on the calendar for due dates for renewals etc. At this time of year if I have to send off documents or whatever it will take longer so need to allow extra time. Whether all or any of this planned virtuous effort takes place I dont know but the musical stuff has to be top of the list as it is tomorrow afternoon. I also need to check what I plan to wear is clean and ironed. So that is about all I plan to get sorted today.
Mick what a price for the mince pies! At that price I will be doing without. Used to make my own of course, but now living alone and with diabetes I dont do much cake baking, as I am not supposed to eat them in any case, so it will encourage me to be virtuous.GrandMattie, hope you enjoy your musical weekend and hear something you enjoy, to your favourite tune. Sar53 hope the AGM goes well. Do you have a boat yourself? Do hope that your DGD S improves soon and that they find some better medication for her.RoseandLilac, sorry you had a disaster with the cooking. When you think how much cooking we do over the years it is a rare occurence really but never the less annoying when it happens. Are you able to lip read or do you use makaton at all? I have learnt a very little of makaton but if there was a course on it I would go as I think it is helpful. Also I dont think people make enough effort to look directly at you, so that you have at least the opportunity to lip read. It is so tiring when you have to concentrate so hard to follow what is happening isnt it?
Well a very slight improvement , it has actually stopped raining but that is all. Fingers crossed for it to improve more , but not much chance Hope the weather improves for us all and you have a peaceful and pleasant day
