Good morning Mick and all GN's on a dark, chilly still morning in North Yorkshire. Hoping for a better day today.
Yesterday I had to spend the day inside and didnt even get out for a walk in the garden. Weird day, as had stomach upset and then kept doing things and listening to the radio and then falling asleep for short times, totally odd. I would wake up with the book on the floor or the piece of music finished, with no sense of going to sleep, and just that blank. Obviously I needed the sleep but wished I knew how it happened and could put it to use on other occasions. Anyway fingers crossed that today is starting more normally.
I did manage to do quite a bit of sorting out despite the falling asleep episodes, but of course the things I had wanted to find the most have not appeared. Still no new glasses appearing, and havent found the instructions for the radiators either so more searching today. I did have a good go at the fridge and it now is both clean and the food in it worth eating, but am lacking any inspiration for something to cook or eat right now. So the kitchen is really in quite a decent state with clean surfaces and so forth. Cant say the same for the lounge.
It is in that awful mess stage right now, where I am still sorting things out. So I have a bag of books that are going to the charity shop and am sorting out some toys to go too, that I had here for my grandson visiting, but that he has grown out of and I need to pass those on too. Added to that we had a very good talk the other week from the Yorkshire Air Ambulance speaker and they reminded us that it has no grants but is supported by local people mostly and their various fund raising things. They collect good clothes to sell to raise money, and so that has galvanised me into having a look through the wardrobe and I have put several things ready to go to them, but if I can I want to go through the drawers and wardrobes and be more severe with myself today , and if there is something that hasnt been worn for months add that to the pile. I always wash and iron things before they get hung up or put away so they are all clean and ready to go, and if I can get that job done today I will pass them on before I am tempted to get them back out again!!
No doubt I am like everyone else at the moment and heartily sick of the same winter clothes still being needed, but my only possibility of getting more cheering linen trousers out to wear is by putting my polar long johns on underneath!! Well maybe that is going to be the answer today, I just must get out for some fresh air and to cheer myself up with looking at some snowdrops and whatever else is shooting up. Well have to finish this sorting out first and then at least I will feel I have made an effort and got rid of a few more things.
I watched some of the rugby yesterday but again annoyingly fell asleep for a short time and missed a bit. Between the rugby and some of the olympics I feel I have had enough of any sort of games and would welcome an interesting play or two but more likely to get it on the radio than the box at the moment. I need to have something more taxing for the brain and think that it is time to begin working on my Makaton on a more regular manner. I dont want to forget what I have learnt and want to be ready to join another group as soon as I get a call to say a course is beginning again. I need to contact another lady who was on the course with me as we had planned to get together to practise so that might be a plan for this week.
There was no inspiration from the local papers or the Yorkshire post this week. Very little going on that is either of interest to me or reasonably local, and in fact one or two things cancelled as I think there are so many bugs going round that plans have had to be put off for many people. It would be a great time for someone to organise a charity coffee morning or bring and buy or whatever, there is so little happening that I am sure that many people would be keen to get out and do something.
February has been pretty much a dead loss here, and I had hoped to get out and see some of the great sky things with various planets and the moon etc all lining up. I went out to look but it was too cloudy and didnt see anything, and there is meant to be a special moon night coming up but dont think that is going to be visible here either unless I drive up to somewhere where there is a dark sky and hope for a clear night.
Hope you have a good trip into Bicester Mick and meet a friend or two. Hope you enjoy the film Grandmattie. Susan56 good luck with the battle of the medications. I know how infuriating it can be. Whilst of course the pharmacists have a lot of knowledge and think one tablet is going to be the same as another, they do not allow for the fact that obviously , you know your own body more than anyone else. I had managed after quite a while to balance my medications so that I was managing my diabetes but just avoiding having any excema , and so long as I didnt get a cold or flu it was working. Then they announced that x tablet was going to be replaced by y tablet and there would be no different. I told them that I had had that in the past and it didnt work for me, but they insisted on the change. So then the excema came back with a vengeance and took quite a long time to calm down. They rather begrudgingly put me back on the other tablet and now no more problems.
Well just looked out and the sky is clearing , a bit of a breeze, and a couple of pigeons walking the branches of the tree, perhaps prospecting for nest sites, but not a leaf in sight yet. However here we go again with rain starting to appear on the windows. Fingers crossed it is just going to be a shower and the wind will clear it away.
Wishing you all a successful day in whatever you plan and that the weather improves with sun coming out to cheer us all
