Good morning Michael and all GN's from a dark, still morning in North Yorkshire. I am glad to have given up and got up, as have been tossing and turning and a rubbish night, mostly worried about my son. I have the Nightmare song from G@S Iolanthe running through my head, but too early to sing aloud and wake the neighbours! Today he gets to see the consultant, if there are no further messing about with the appointments and so hopefully, at least we will know the worst and what the plans are to deal with things. I am not going to ring him, as I dont want him thinking it is the hospital putting it off again, but am very on edge. I think quite a bit of tidying up will happen this morning, as I need to just do something physical, and use up some energy and stress.
All this week I have managed to get a few things done, but never what I planned for the day. Definitely the borrowers have been around as so many things seem to have disappeared, including my diary, which I must find this morning, as I think I have some appointment or something written in for today. Not on the calendar but just cant be sure. That is probably just the way I am feeling at the moment.
Yesterday was quite windy but dry and quite sunny too. It was market day, and I went down on the yellow peril, needing to use the bell quite a bit as there seemed to be a few buses worth of visitors, lots of children about as still half term and the usual things spreading out from the stalls and idiot vans who seem to think that it is ok to park across the dropped kerb and leave it unattended so long as they leave their hazards on!! Of course, I was waiting for ages,hoping that they had just gone to drop something off at a shop but no one appeared, and of course not one policeman or parking warden around to get them to book them either!! So I then had to turn round and wend my way through the crowd quite a long way back up the street to find another dropped kerb where I could cross!! Gnash Gnash!
I had had to admit defeat, as I have been without my watch for a couple of days and so went to buy the cheapest one off the market , in the hope that the minute I bought that the other one would turn up . (No such luck!)My stall holder who is usually very good at having what he says will have that day, when he promises, today was full of apologies as his delivery had arrived very late and so he hadnt had chance to unpack anything , so somewhere in the lot my hopefully bright yellow hat for winter and my thicker sox for diabetics are languishing and I will get them next time. The weather hasnt been cold so no major worries, but just another minor hassle for the day!!
Must have been a bus from Lancashire in, as quite a long queue waiting for the doors to open in Bettys, and at the prices there ,we yorkshire folk acknowledge it is good, but go elsewhere for just as good food but a lot cheaper price!! So a somewhat frustrating shopping trip, with my back being constantly jarred and the paths feeling much worse, but no doubt just my bad day. I was pleased to land up in Cafe Nero, for a sit down and a decent coffee. It seemed a bit quieter , but still plenty of people about and I was happy to find a comfortable seat and enjoy my coffee. A lady I sometimes meet there, who has a similar attitude to life was already there and reading Private Eye! My goodness that has been on the go for many years. I used to get it years ago especially when I was living and working in London, and it cheered up longish delays in the tube on the way to work at Overseas Telegrams. Ah can it be true that that was more than 60 years ago?
Back at home I planned to get a bit more organised but no such luck, as had things that needed to be done, several phone calls and again things that should have been to hand somehow disappeared. So I did what I could and had a meal and then off to whist. With the clocks going back, a much darker journey, and plenty of idiots who do not seem to know or care where the dipped switch is for their lights.
We had a lot less than normal as two people were ill, and another half a dozen had gone off to Yarmouth for a whist week holiday, but it was still very pleasant, and kept my mind off the things that were worrying me. Some very strange hands all night and a lot of cross trumping etc., and I started very badly with a hand with no trumps at all and won just 1 trick, but at least that meant the only way was up from there. Well in the end I won a minor prize and also a raffle prize, so came home with very healthy and good prizes of green grapes, some lovely plums and large oranges plus a jar of marmalade , so did very well and got home very weary with my back bad but pleased I went as it gave me a couple of hours of something else to think of.
So the plans for this morning are after my shower to get the bedding in the washer and hope that it finishes in good time to let me put it out on the line, before I go to the meeting. All the while searching for diary, key, good pen, watch and several other things that have gone walkabout. I havent checked for any messages but hopefully the cleaners will be here this afternoon to sort out the bed and give the carpets a good hoover, as this week I have been struggling so the hoovering got left .The fridge needs a sort out, as it has been a case of shoving things in in a rush instead of getting it all in the right date order, but what I actually get done today will not need careful thought or use of brain power other than put shoes on take slippers off variety.
I hope you have a good trip into town Mick and the weather is kind to you. Wishing everyone a good day, managing to get jobs and things sorted easily. The old message from the war days of "Keep calm and carry on" should be my motto for the day, but perhaps we can alter it to Keep calm and enjoy something, to be our motto for today.
