Good morning Mick and all GNs on a slightly lighter dry, still morning in North Yorkshire. Partly lighter of course because I am later than usual. I am full of a cold and creaking , and when people say oh its only a cold, I never agree with them. You feel bunged up and rubbish and I get a headache with it. So everything takes longer to do and even this morning, my fingers seem to be effected and having to go back and correct misspelling a lot. Fortunately I dont have a lot of things that I have to do as opposed to what I wanted to do, and think that there will be whatever essential I find I need and the local paper and get home and allow myself to just do the least possible and hope for some improvement this afternoon.
Yesterday I was absolutely struggling to move around, but with something of an effort, managed to get cracking and went for my prescription, which I was in need of and couldnt leave it. So then was a little late for the womens group, but glad I went as we had a very good speaker, who was talking about someone who had been married to the station master at Leeming bar. She had all the information and it was interesting how the station master had begun as very low down in the railway and gone on moving up and up and not only getting to a very good position , but making quite a lot of money, including getting free coal and of course free travel on the railway. His wife had various things to help with , but even after he had died , she still had free travel and used to visit her sister at another station. It was all very interesting, and then she also had a lovely display of all sorts of old equipment to look at and guess what it was used for.
Being mostly in the age range of 60/80 we had used or knew all the equipment and had some fun reminising about their use. She even had what I would have called a large sweet jar with wooden paddles in it with a handle to turn on the lid. I remembered using that very well as it was a butter making jar that my granny had and you used to stir the cream until it turned into butter. It could take a long time and I remember as a child working it with one hand and then the other,getting tired, and asking my granny to have a go. It would then annoy me as it would turn within a couple of minutes of my granny taking over!!
In my first year at grammar school I actually went to school on a steam train, before the diesels came in (which were useless to do homework on as it swayed too much ) and we all had lots to talk about going over the bridges like in the Railway Children, and the porter yelling at us to shut the doors etc., So it was a very pleasant time and I was glad I had struggled to get there.
Then it was a swift trip home and hoping that the cleaning ladies would arrive as I hadnt heard from my email to them earlier in the day, and my spare key was still missing. Got home and the washing out on the line, and then Jessie arrived. The mystery was solved. She had been locked out of her old phone for some reason, got another one , but hadnt got my number on her, so she had come on the offchance of my being there and Debbie wasnt well so she was on her own.
So I was very glad as the thought of trying to turn the mattress or even attempt to hoover yesterday would have been very difficult. The missing key was found, the flat tidied and new phone numbers and emails exchanged so it was a worthwhile afternoon but felt totally shattered by then end and not up to doing anything else. Never mind , all is clean, and today a gentle sort out of things should put me in a better position for the weekend. That is if I feel a bit better than now. Right now I have no great ideas for the weekend and will just be glad if I feel able to do anything without an effort.
Hope you have a good trip Mick. Today I dont even envy you your lunch, and usually reading of your plans puts me in mind to join you. I wish you all a good day with plans working out. Will come back and read a bit more later, but need to make a decent coffee and try and get myself up to going out shortly.
