Busy, Busy, Busy …
To be honest, I can’t quite remember what I’ve been up to and when, mainly as I haven’t had to time to sit down and think about it! I did spend nearly 3 weeks with my great friends Pamela and Mary over Christmas and the New Year in Ireland and I somehow got back here early evening of the 9th January. An update on that trip will emerge in good time, but even in Ireland I was in touch with kitchen fitters who having been due to start at Pauline’s flat on the 19th wanted to change that to the 12th! So, back in time to use stuff in the freezer (hoping the power had only been off because of Storm Goretti … but I’m alive to tell the tale, so I guess I was right!) and the washing machine. Then I had to meet relatives at the flat who will be using it once the kitchen is renewed. Back home for more washing and a little fresh food before Tuesday and onto a new venue-based art course. At home, it was rain, rain, rain and my only usable house door started sticking badly… groan, I have my second cataract op coming up and I’m not then meant to be doing anything forceful, so once the rain stopped (today!!!) I managed to sort it out. I could go on, but it’s quite boring – ordering food for after my op, choosing kitchen white goods and bathroom tiles for the flat and me getting generally fed up with having one eye with superb long distance bluish vision (but rubbish within 4 ft) and the other having a yellowish tint and nothing worth trying to look at beyond 4 ft. It does get very tiring. And wondering if that squirrel is building a drey right above my walnut tree ... Come Saturday that should all change ... to a week of night-time eye patching and a month of steroid eye drops!
In the meanwhile, I have been able to get a new skirt – black cotton midi, and two tops. I do also have a trouser suit, but the jacket has to go back as while the detachable label said one thing, the attached label said another (by a difference of 10 sizes!!!) But, notwithstanding those buys, the appearance of Nikki will probably remain on hold until my eyes start working together … it could be a week, it could be a month, it could be until I’ve got back to my opticians in about 8 weeks and have new glasses.
I’m looking forward to March when the flat shouldn’t be a worry for me and my eyes will be good for a few years.
Now to try and remember Ireland!
It's certainly been a whirlwind for you, since your return to Blighty. I hope your flat refurbishment and your eye op goes well and you make it through to calmer times soon. I can only imagine the journey from Ireland was challenging, given the date you arrived home, and the arrival of a storm that sounds like it should be a mafiosa hit man. It certainly hit hard here, although personally the damage was minimal. So many trees have been lost across the South West. I look forward to hearing about your Christmas and New Year in Ireland.
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Hi Dee, it's now quietening down - the flat's done, the white goods ordered (and I'm not involved in the delivery of those ... phew!) I'm looking forward to next week when I have to take things very gently and hope to catch up with Irish Christmas etc. But, that mafioso storm ... it threatened to wreck all my arrangements. I did have a room booked at Bangor on the night of the 8th (I always book a cheap Travelodge room in case of tiredness, or whatever) and I had to decide whether to try and outrun storm or let it blow through. I chose the latter. It was getting choppy arriving at Holyhead and sleet was falling at Bangor. I expected a long, and very slow drive home. At 8am, however, I could see traffic moving and whatever snow had fallen had gone, so I headed out onto very quiet roads (I guess all the warnings had put people off travelling) and just drove home in 5.5 hours - a record! xxx
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