What amazing photographs. Thank you people. I have aspirations for the Isle of Mull but it will have to wait for this year.
Ann pleased things are staying relatively as they are for now.
Now, I have to report a lockdown on the poorly wing due to errant behaviour. Whilst I was discussing rations with cook someone interfered with the nursing notes and all the nil by mouth charts have been defaced. They now read 'nil by mouth apart from beer and Roses chocolates'. I have taken stern measures, and the menfolk now realise I am made of much sterner stuff than they first thought.
As far as the kitchen is concerned I have left a supply of home made luxury fishcakes for distribution. They just require cooking, so enjoy them. There is also a chilli dipping sauce if required, but it is quite hot and spicy - beware.
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Ann that's good news - there comes a time when it's definitely better not to bother a patient with invasive treatment they don't understand. I stopped my mum having 6 monthly hospital visits to have her vaginal prolapse cap replaced - it was so painful for her and she had no idea what was happening which was distressing.
Soop I have the carbolic on standby with a very stiff loofah but so far the inmates on the ward are behaving and the showers are in full use! I do have a very varied selection of books on offer though so will do the rounds later on - nothing too stimulating - we can't have them over excited at bedtime! Your photo would be a great one to have on the wall in there.
Harrigran that picture is fabulous. Although we were up at 5 yesterday morning it was too cloudy to see anything of the moon.
Swanny I was terrified of dogs as a child - one jumped up and scratched me which was bad enough but my aunt had a terrier called Grip who growled a lot and made me even worse. I was only cured when we finally got a puppy when I was 9 after seeing him the pet shop next door - I begged and pleaded for this little ball of fluff and eventually my dad gave in. They had him for 16 years and were devastated when he died.
N&G I hope your 'man' managed to mend your boiler - no heating or hot water in this weather is no fun. I've picked a very bad day to paint the kitchen doors as now I can't close either and the draught blowing through the Khyber Pass is particularly unpleasant. I'm now donned in fleece head to toe but still cold.
I went to pick up my prescription today and had a medication review with the pharmacist - quite a good service really. She advised a visit to the doctor to check out the palpitations which have started again despite the meds so I'd better get that sorted out. I hate the doctors - it's full of ill people 
Glad that you and the Medics agreed with OHs treatment Ann , and we can hope things don't get worse for him 
Izabella VERY funny! 
dragonfly Yes, I took the photos through the window shortly before I uploaded them. Those are the islands of Jura and Islay...the Inner Hebrides. Gigha is a short ferry ride away.
And - yes please to hot chocolate. I shouldn't, but I would if I could.
Willow Best do as the pharmacist suggested. Let us know what the GP advises.
I meant to leave a sturdy loofha for the bed baths. If you get any "nonsense," wave it in the air with a disciplinary flourish.
I need to log off. Thank you for your company. I would hate not to chat at some point during the day. 
Hello the kitchen! I didn’t get round to the Anzac biscuits yesterday but I offer them warm from the oven. They have the invalid’s seal of approval (and mine)!
N&G I have been tempted to ask for the leg of lamb a few times in connection with DH’s sartorial intransigence. For several years after he came back from two winter tours in the Falklands, he insisted on clinging to his motheaten (in fact, even the moths turned their noses at them eventually) military cold weather undergarments, socks and boots for our winter walking rather than buying himself some decent stuff. I mean, if he had been run over by a bus on the wilds of the Kinder escarpment, I would have been mortally embarrassed! If you are recruiting for the SAS?, please count me in, but only if we have a nice hat!??
Dragonfly I am very pleased to hear that your DH is on the mend and due for discharge from the men’s ward (lucky chap - I may be re-employed soon!). We are ticking along making small improvements and walking (very) short distances outside.
In fact, we are off shortly for our daily constitutional so I had better make a move. I will look in later.
Here I am again. The funeral for "J the Strimmer" was very well attended. It appeared that the majority of residents in the village attended. He was kind, sociable, hard-working and thoroughly decent. He will be missed. No doubt about it.
Now, I have more-or less caught up with activities here in our kitchen. The slightly, poorly men-folk wing appears to be emptying. Obviouly the strict regime isn't for those of a delicate/nervous constitution.
Willow, your husband's throat sounds serious. He had better have the GP give an honest opinion. The newly established wing is those with less serious conditions who will benefit from Matron's strict regime
Greyduster You have a wicked sense of humour.
It is always good to hear from Panache. One day at a time...makes perfect sense.
N&G As far as I know, MacSporran hasn't discarded a single garment in the thirty years we've been together. He has kept "stuff" from the eighties...kipper ties and, dare I say it, flairs! I jest. I made sure that they disappeared without trace. Everything he keeps is precious. Far too good to dispence with even though I may never again need them. His words, not mine.
Ann Molly has added a new dimension to your life. She will grow into a fine feline (less frisky than she is at prent) but good company.
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