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Pam and Jude Meet the Coot
Just had a very nice couple of days down at the coot. Pam and Jude (and the Hannibal Brown wine van) came down to join us for a night, while the usually resident Capons were away in Cadiz for a cheeky Spanish long weekend. Two rather long walks, courtesy of Mr H and his perennial…
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And the Nice Bits
The thing that is really nice right now, is the 'seeing friends for social, now that I'm very much out and about again'. So cheers to my uni chum Mark for a cracking lunch up in town together on Monday. Just loving that I can travel properly again without fear of running out of energy/puff,…
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A Bit of a Prof Bombshell
So I went back to see him yesterday, ostensibly to get the results of last week's MRI on my lower back. Disappointingly this came back as 'the lumbar odoema shows slight improvement' – which wasn't as big a step forward as I was hoping 6 weeks of antibiotics, 4 times a day, plus the steroid…
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Happy Birthday Hawksey
Wow, what a difference a few weeks can make. The last time we came down to the cottage, I was worried about the 75 minute journey to get here and spent the whole weekend horizontal on the sofa, unable to chip in any help, and in a world of pain every time I needed to…
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Good Sess with Prof
Saw Prof yesterday and after I had walked in and sat down opposite him, the chat went like this. Prof: 'Bloody hell. …. Bloody hell…. Bloody hell…. Bloody hell…. Bloody hell' Me: 'Urm…?' Prof: 'Blood-dy Hell! Who would have thought it a month ago? Even two weeks ago?' As he continued to burble, I just took this to mean…
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What a Weekend
Blimey, I think I shoe-horned just about every ingredient of a weekend into this one – no wonder I'm flat on my back in bed with a certain throbbing in the rear torso. Did I maybe squeeze just a little too much in?! Friday night was date night with the hubby. Got an Uber to…
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The Difference between Cats and Dogs
You've got to love them both. Mojo – basking absolute bliss in the first of the early Spring sunshine, up on the kitchen table. A furry sun worshipper, belly out and snickering little snores emerging. …
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Feel Good Feet
What's the perfect present for dry skin? A Kiko intensive treatment so it seems. Two plazzy bags with nice oily moist stuff inside, insert dry hooves, tape the bag over and 15 minutes later out come two smooth body parts that actually look like feet again. …
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I Only Meant to Trim the Bay Leaf Bushes…
A momentous day – I finally felt up to having a little hack at the garden, which is hugely overgrown in its titchy backyard space. Thought I'd start with the 2 bay tree bushes (wedding presents from Added Value – almost 6 years later they are somehow still alive (albeit one a bit singed from Mr…
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Saw Prof Today
Popped up to the Dark Side for a catch up with Prof today. Still no identifiable results from the back biopsy, so that turned out to be a very damp squib in a Petri dish. Might still grow something, but I suspect it's going to be a bad case of garden coriander – lots of…