{"id":704,"date":"2017-03-07T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/pottering-chatting\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:49:14","slug":"pottering-chatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/pottering-chatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pottering &#038; Chatting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early start as H off to work by 6.15am and Cathy actually up, hair washed and over to sort out her rental flat by 8am. So I found myself at my laptop by 8.15am, having already had my first dose of the vile cherry liquid antibiotic, and a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>Emailed Calcot Manor, which we&#39;ve booked into for our wedding anniversary in May, to check they have no problem with taking Big C patients in the spa for treatments. All too often there&#39;s the &#39;sorry we can&#39;t do a massage for you if you&#39;ve got The Nasty&#39; and I wanted to avoid any chance of a scene when we&#39;re away. Normally I just lie through my teeth and tick the &#39;nope, nothing wrong with me&#39; box on the spa form, but I twigged that the lack of hair might be a bit of a giveaway still in May. Anyway, hats off to them, got a nice email back saying all fine on that front, so that&#39;s a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Pottered about doing more chores, took the car to the car wash, bought some cakes for afternoon tea, chased mum&#39;s accountants for a tax rebate and tried on three new tops &#8211; the fleece gets to stay, the other two are definitely return to sender.. Nice though to be back doing &#39;normal shit&#39; even if much of it&#39;s not that thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona McA came over in the afternoon for a good old natter and to help me polish off the cakes over a cup of tea. Think I may have to hide the giganteous bar of Dairy Milk that came with her from Mr H, what a corker.<\/p>\n<p>Up to the common afterwards to meet H again. Back a right pain but worth the aggro to get some fresh air, I&#39;ve def been in the house waaaaaaay too much these last 6 weeks. Even volunteered to drive Cathy to Wickes to get some more stuff for her flat. As she got in the (newly washed) car, a major niff of what I thought was an impressive Scott family fart wafted up my nose, so as any good sister does, I accused her of bringing a very bad trump into the car. This was denied, and we drove off, windows down, with the pong still intact.<\/p>\n<p>Did Wickes and got a nice young man to help load her sink and bits into the boot. Again, a very bad waft emerged. Poor chap legged it back into the store, clearly thinking we were a pair of stinkers. At this point I spotted the dog walking bag also in the boot &#8211; with a virulent Scrumpy turd in a thin pooh bag in it&#8230;. 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