Onwards

 i have my garden slave from lunch tomorrow , im hoping the weather holds and the munchkin and me supervising can get loads done , if the weather holds . Ive discovered a great way to keep my seed potatoes happy over winter , i popped them in a cold box in the corner of the kitchen opened it up the other day and they are nicely chitted and sat waiting to go in . pot of leeks hasnt come up yet sat in the garden but they are often slow to germinate . Strawberry bed ready for replanting and a bonfire to build . Should keep him busy . This is also a mental health visit for him as my daughter is worried about him , 13 and worried about the possibility of war , when its on every bit of media he sees . The garden is always a good outlet for a head thats a bit to worried for its size . 

The flood sirens are going off in the distance , are we expecting a Tsunami? we only hear them when the wind is in the right direction here . I would imagine they are testing them . 12ft above sea level is luxury round here, we are on a clay river bank the first bump in the fen , half a mile away its flat as the eye can see all the way to the sea 13 miles away , the only thing on the horizon is Boston Stump . Inhabited land from the dawn of man . Neolithic hut circles in the fields , odd bits of Roman to find in the gardens and an originally Saxon church . Im curious to see what they find in the field opposite when they do the archeological survey before building the mini mansions , wouldnt it be a shame if they found something and the 2 days turn into weeks ...lol 

Time

 Why is there never enough hours in the day? Im spending to much time on hobbies when i should be on my hands and knees scrubbing floors but there is the possibility that i might not get back up once i get down there , i know realise how easy it is for a house to degenerate into an episode of filthy house SOS . Once your taping scouring pads to your feet to scrub the floors you realize you have a problem that i cant see a solution to . Tried the GP but all the blood tests came back surprisingly normal so therefore i cant be in pain , still doesnt help the fact that my mobility is getting oddly impaired , reached the realms of i can do most everything so long as i dont do it for more than half an hour , its my age apparently . To say other half isnt understanding is an understatement . ive got such daft symptoms cant lift one or both of my arms sometimes , the leg dragging is as old as the hills , the odd struggle to swallow every now and again. Its the menopause i must be stupid not to have asked for HRT . Helpful medical professionals who dont read your notes are the bane of my life . We shant even go into the argument about the 32p dearer tablets that im on , i rather wanted to shout at that point .  Anyway im still here still reading your blogs and trying to decide how the hell im going to clean a moldy bathroom ceiling ..ho hum 

Pointless Worries

 

My mother is totally convinced that the Russians are coming thanks to the Daily Mail and its pointless trying to change her mind . What a load of media bollocks we are being fed , all those government stooges posted trying to look as if they have a clue what they are doing . 

Sick of hearing it , The Russia report made it clear that all parties have been sucking up Russian money for years . A vast pool of septic roubles free for just nodding your head at the right time .  Maybe executing a few bit players for treason will be required to stop this scandal . bet they didnt sign up for that when they offered to take the fall for a few office parties . 

If they start chucking nukes about their are no winners ever , why we persist in even having them is beyond me, nuclear deterrent my arse , very simplistic i know, they will merely find some other lousy way to kill each other .   Have you noticed that there isnt even support for this latest spat from the Russian people .

For those who are to young to remember the picture at the top is a nuclear shadow from Hiroshima , where people were carbonized by the blast and all that remained was the shadows of their corpses , bear in mind they were the lucky ones .

Of Gardens and Bombs

 Im trying to rally the troops to put in a bit of garden slavery , its not going well as putting in a wee bit of time and effort seems pointless to them , just growing for me and MR BH doesnt involve a lot but i can see that the rest of them just dont get that the biggest cash saving they can make is to grow your own and i have a vast garden that is now mainly unused. I just need the annual garden bonfire to set the spuds in and the spring bramble cull to take place . Im sure there are certain family members who think a hello fresh box is a better idea than putting a few hours in the garden that they can then abandon for granny to weed and water till harvest . Beggers belief really , daughter grows bits in tubs she has a tiny garden , i have space for bulk winter crops here and i think we may need them this year .  On that thought useful son is being made redundant next week may give him a rattle , it seems he needs a 10 year checkable work history at his current job it being local government , he cant supply this because he was a carer for grandad for two years . AAARRGGHH  . 

I do think the people of Russia have got a truly terrible fate awaiting it seems our Pound shop Churchill is broadcasting propaganda to the Russian people in a bid to topple Putin . Really ? I dont think the Russian people have much to say about Putin he is a shameless dictator , much in the way that Boris would like to be . Many brave people are protesting in Russia but they have arrested 1700 people in one night , something that only features in Priti Patels wildest fantasy's here. We live near to a huge airbase and the activity is day and night now , if you live here your used to it but its certainly frightening the incomers . One of our more nutty locals did ask if my bug out bags were ready for when the bombing starts , i pointed out we would be going nowhere , partner cant walk more than a few meters , so here we would stay . Ho hum i really need to get that gardening done 

World of Confusion

 
Do you get the impression that Boris and his evil cohorts are flying round doing diplomacy wearing a Buy Your Arms Here tee shirts?  A war brewing must be seen as a big money spinner for many of his financiers . The funding of the Tories has a big chunk of roubles involved so despite our pretty neutral status due to leaving the EU its not our backside having to watch itself from a kicking from Mr Putin anybody would think this had been planned many years ahead ?

So in the real world it does appear we may be heading back to the realms of more DWP wars in this household , last year we submitted our renewal for PIP the disability cost part of Mr Bah Humbugs payments its a whole £27 a week as we are on the lowest rates , so at least this time if this all goes tits up we shant be left with nothing to live on but it will cause untold problems with everything from keeping a roof over our heads to being able to travel for his appointments . After telling us the assessment had been cancelled due to Covid they promptly a month later told us it had to be done straight away , i filled it in back in June last year all 600 pages plus including all his medical records , letters from consultants etc , they acknowledged it back in September , then in December they wrote to say was he still applying ? i rang and they told me he was in the queue and it could be some months . The other day i got a letter to say my carers allowance being stopped due to the end of his claim ? Spoke to the carers team who are pretty good , they informed me that because his claim hadnt been processed it would stop unless the DWP told them otherwise .  So once again we had to speak to the realms of the dead known as the DWP after a shocking 2 hours trying to get through the security and hold system we finally got to speak to a human and had to go through the whole security randomness again . To be told yes the renewal was in the system but there is a huge backlog and it could be at least another 6 months before it progresses  but they will speak to carers and stick 6 months on the case . I then asked what happens if they once again reject his claim and we have to go to tribunal again ? I will at that point be expected to pay back the whole six months carers as a lump sum....here we go again , i suppose a year of my life without been in debt to the DWP is to much to look forward to? Im not sure how the scroungers manage it , we can never seem to get a penny ahead 

munchkin tale

 This lovely tale of my grandson was passed to me by one of my spies . Back in the day sex education in schools was a bit odd , ours consisted of a nun ,a box of bananas and endless embarrassment, with a long lecture on keeping your knees firmly together and letting nobody past your knicker elastic . Because boys only want one thing and it was your duty to god to stop them getting it . Totally baffling as it was never explained what the one thing was . One of the older girls who was getting the one thing from one of the school bus drivers explained to our horror . The boys were taken away to watch films on venereal diseases that probably scarred them for life . These days it would seem that they have special trained sex educators that are invited in to teach a mixed class , so my grandson who has a gob on him and is a know it all sat through the film the slides and being a clever little so and so  it got to the question and answer bit . He promptly chimes up with ...So what do gays do ?  Now in the normal scheme of things a teacher would just tell him to shut up , but not this seasoned sex educator of whom i am deeply proud . She was prepared and had a whole very graphic set of explanatory diagrams and booklets and even a little film that the whole class had to sit and squirm through . He is now an expert and is getting the piss ripped out of him at school . What he hadnt forseen was that granny and grandad are really enjoying half term with him , his grandad keeps going on and on about lubrication and you can see the panic because hes not quite certain that we know and hes desperate for his mum not to find out ...

Grump

 I do think im on an endless moan at the moment , but i got up this morning to find that my pension age had risen yet again to 68 !!! shant be fit to go on bus trips and play bingo by then , the fact that i wouldnt want to has nothing to do with it .  My health is very two step forwards three steps back at the moment not helped by an online GP who says its my age and i should expect these things , just petty annoyances . It has been suggested i go to walking group for seniors , having seen this miserable practice trooping round the nearest town, a friend lasted two weeks after being pulled too one side by the dayglo clad leader and instructed to go and buy proper walking boots . She did say she felt out of place because she didnt own a drab north face jacket and proper walking trousers all very over the top for walking round the local housing estates of course, then there was the fact that there was a few men still alive and marching trying to chat up those merry widows who didnt fancy another aging bore to nurse having  finished off the first one. I really dont think that the powers that be grasp that country folk are a different breed we did all this wandering round aimlessly as youngsters for years , the tail end of our lives should be spent sat in a nice warm kitchen , prepping veg in industrial quantities for the kids families . oh and staring out the window with our knitting waiting to spot what language the swearing is from the white van man having broken an ankle taking a short cut over the garden. See even i have fantasies a nice warm kitchen something this house is incapable of achieving ...lol, 

Busy

 Meanwhile in the real world , just really busy at the moment , having to be Mr BHs hands consumes a lot of time hes still pottering on doing dolls house furniture , with much swearing and throwing stuff everywhere . Then when i get him settled down he can spend hours trawling ebay telling me what i need , then i just yes dear and ignore him , everything he spots costs money that i dont have and i will get it how i want with bits and pieces for pennies eventually .  Plus i have my leg warmer project just awaiting magnet closures that i had to order again because ive lost the first lot i ordered . Gardening season is due to start and my assistant informed me hes coming for the whole of half term , so at least me and the munchkin will be busy . though i may be mainly supervising ..lol 

The world around us becomes a more depressing place every day , The daftness in the Ukraine , that supposedly Liz Truss is going over to resolve . That should give Putin a giggle , i think he does as he likes and laughs at us all . Not content with holding the world to ransom over his gas reserves this latest sabre rattle has more to do with the Ukraine being the breadbasket of Europe than any political cause . Meanwhile our lovely Tory government will be rubbing their hands together in glee at the arms sales made whatever the outcome . 

Then we have the Carrie bashing , yet another dead cat story?  Or is he planning on replacing her with his latest squeeze ? Got sick of her organic nappies drying on the bannisters? Or is his bunny boiler missus planning to chop his bits off having got wind of yet another indiscretion .

Then theres this bleedin daft idea of giving every household a 200 quid loan to pay for their fuel , you just know theres a catch and they would make a profit from it somehow .  Someone figured it out , the loan is compulsory to every household BUT it must be repayed by every household , so households not formed yet will also have the payments clawed back despite not having received the  original money . So every newbuild or flats converted from empty office buildings will be profit . Crafty gits till the bitter end 

Mumsicles

 So having managed to keep himself home for another week and avoid our plague ridden hospital. Mr Bah Humbug has stolen my big project , daughter had got her friend to drop off a huge dolls house in bits that had been lurking in her friends garage for years . It infested my living room for a couple of weeks boxes and boxes of it . Her plan had been to flog it online but on looking at the fact that it was broken filthy and even immaculate modern dolls houses of this size are worthless she asked if i wanted it to break for spares . its  totally the wrong scale to be any use to me for that. So i decided to build it up and have a think of what to do with it . The cat has currently claimed it . Other half however is in love and has taken to doing it up on his good days, however this means i have to sit with him and be his hands , he has the shakes and mine keep swelling up so its going well....lol  However the problem is that he wants to throw money at the project where i would over the course of the summer picked up bits and bobs on my travels , all my crafts and hobbies cost me pennies . So it ended in an argument and hes off in a huff looking at kits that cost 100s that can be his project ...ho hum do i never learn.

Meanwhile mumsie is sending me round the bend , she is very perky at the moment . She had to go to the hospital for her eyes yet again , but the appointment was for a Saturday . The ambulance car picked her up as we have finally got them to provide transport for her having pointed out she lives alone and is 87 and partially sighted . They get to the hospital only to find its in darkness and theres nobody at the clinic so her driver potters off to find out whats going on , then another old dear is delivered for the same thing . So after much discussion it turns out they dont have clinics on a Saturday at this hospital they should be at another hospital miles away but that clinic is cancelled . So out of the goodness of his heart the actual consultant is going to come down and see them after hes finished his rounds but it may be a while . She had to wait a couple of hours but at least she got her injections .  Her comment on speaker phone so my other half heard this .... Filthy foreigner with a germ riddled turban , why hasnt he been sent back with all those Polish .  Other half commented its folks like her make you ashamed to be British .

Meanderings

Still pondering the meaning of my life and getting nowhere ..lol  So todays is starting out as one of those days . Himself has arisen with one of his epic nosebleeds . So the day wont be going to any plan . Hes as mardy as his arse and keeps shouting at me because i wont let him go back upstairs and i have the washer on and the noise stops him thinking ,?  The ambulance folks have instructed me he must stay downstairs when he starts bleeding in case he yet again hemorrhages and collapses , plus if i keep popping in i can monitor how much hes lost rather than him craftily chucking the full jugs down the loo and pretending hes fine .  The paramedics and ambulance folks that come from EMAS are a lovely bunch and they have showed me how to deal with him . H has the proper plastic nose clips that i bought a box of from Amazon because like so many things the NHS doesnt supply them anymore . But he just gets angrier and angrier like a toddler whos thwarted . So currently he hates me . To be fair weve just had a bit of an annoying shitter of a week , endless petty annoyances . Brother in laws family have all got Covid  , Son in law has got Covid , Son has got Covid ,so hes seen no one and hes stressing.  Then he had a GP appointment yesterday cancelled yet again because there was no GP, but the call came just as he was sat deicing the car so that set him spluttering again . Its a fact that the more he gets annoyed the more likely the epic nosebleeds are and the worse the nosebleeds the more likely he is to end up in the back of an ambulance sat outside casualty because they have to monitor his heart . Its all a bit daft but Covid means they cant admit him and they cant cauterize his nose. So we will be running this hamster wheel for god knows how long .  So the meaning of life is pretty pointless at the moment. on a plus note they have pointed it out hes gaining points on the jump start pacemaker fitting list That the consultant pointed out he needs but he cant meet the criteria yet because he hasnt had his heart stop long enough for it to be classed as a heart attack!! 

First Jumble

 Somewhat to my surprise there was the first jumble of the year yesterday , i debated a bit then thought sod it , if i died from going to a jumble it would be a fitting epitaph and i needed cat food  and a couple of other bits , so thats the trundle out for the week , ive lost track of the days and time at the moment , trying not to be on the puter so much .  Typing is aggravating the pain in my arms , so ive discovered the joy of watching weird you tube video's  , mud larking and metal detecting this week..lol . Anyway back to the jumble , it was heaving i bought a few bits , yet another denim dress , guess they were a big girl fashion item that didnt catch on . Covered far to much flesh i think , but theyre ideal for pottering around at home , hardwearing and easily repaired when i do something dumb . A huge bag of clothes pegs which had a load of Lakeland duvet clips which are great when your washing can blow down the fen most of the year . Yet another cross stitch kit , posh make poppy fairy . The man seemed surprised when i wanted a pile of those beige fabric shopping bags with designs printed on , i use them as donate bags , just because you cant afford carrier bags these days and theyre easy to carry . This jumble was somewhat epic as they had loads of tied up lucky dip huge bags for £1 all clothing they said they didnt want to store donations all winter because they get damp and smelly which seems like a good reason . The buy to sell ebayers were buying 10 sacks at a time , not for me, im not short of fabrics to use at the moment plus im struggling to carry stuff....anyway this afternoons job is catch up on everyone's blogs , youre all leading far more exciting lives than me at the moment ........

Middle of Nowt

 So thats the event over with , usual anticlimax lol . Ended up with 6 for dinner a very manageable number .I got 3 little competition prizes xmas eve so that was the extent of my xmas other than a huge bar of chocolate and a chocolate orange . Daughter informs me that next year shes cooking and i can do buffet boxing day . Good job she mentioned it as i had been planning to donate all my buffet dish pyrex in the New Year as we dont have guests anymore .  We have pretty much lost the last of our friends through Covid , not through death mainly through divorce and our lack of risk taking . Society as a whole does seem to be changing . the visably crippled are expected to lock themselves away and be forgotten about , the same with the very elderly. The biggest risk in our lives is other halfs endless hospital visits , not a thing can be done about that , you cant do online MRIs and endless transfusions on line , though other half has mentioned hes more likely to die from sanitizer poisoning than Covid .

On the daughter front she should never mention she wanted a king sized quilt at short notice because this was the result all from jumble sale and family clothing 

 

Wanders In

 So i have a bit of time this morning while i wait for an overnight delivery of  something i need to finish a xmas present ..lol ..Well whats to do , Omnicron is among us , but then again so was Delta and doubtless there will be many more yet . Other half got his booster Sunday morning after umpteen cancelations and apart from an oddly swollen arm seems fine , done at the GPs who have suddenly become keen since they upped the payment for them doing them .  The huge surge in cases probably due to the fact that everybody panicked and did a test , i do think that it hasnt just suddenly erupted its just been here a while and been a basic nuisance winter cold cum flu that nobody thought much about and the Tory dead cat society has seized upon it to take the focus away from their endless parties and corruption .  Shant make a whole lot of difference to what goes on around here , still masks , sanitize avoid the human race . Rather wonder if the christmas grocery order will turn up , but its all storecupboard stuff so no big deal if it doesnt , Christmas has been in the freezer since the beginning of October so all i need is a bit of veg . We shant be sat here with the windows wide open despite that daft idea ffs its the middle of winter get a grip .  Though those of the tribe who turn up not prepared to wear a mask around himself will find their turkey poisoned!! 

So enjoy your xmas in whatever shape or form its delivereed in , i may be here again if not see you after the festival 

Treadle on

 Thankyou for all the supportive remarks on my last post , still bimbling on with stuff ,  not a lot of time just because i ve left a xmas gift till the last moment as usual , nothing changes . Im currently enjoying the puter being in the spare room. being tiny its quite warm in here , plus i can huddle in a duvet if it does get cold , other half is still wearing shorts and has his shirt off . Just debating putting a few tiny bids on at auction , nothing exciting theyre just big lots in a tender auction . Now there are the normal auctions where you just bid against each other , then theyre are my favourites box auctions . there will be a big pile of boxes maybe as many as 20 then you bid against each other and the highest bidder gets to pick how many boxes they want at that price . Then you start bidding from nil again and the winner gets second picks and on and on till the last few boxes are going for pennies. A tender auction is where you just put what youre prepared to pay for stuff online before the closing date and if you have the highest bid they email you a collection date . The one problem with this is that people bid on these big lots and want only a couple of items out of them ,so the auctioneer pops the stuff they dont want in with another buyers lots. I went to Grantham the other week to pick up  a shoebox of dolls house windows and came home with a big Triang dolls house in bits loads of dolls house furniture and parts and a second big dolls house that may be beyond repair , theres also a very old dolls high chair that i tried to give away on facebook  its not suitable as a kids toy these days but i was thinking it would make an interesting plant stand.

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/golding-young-and-mawer/catalogue-id-ibgo10803.

Negative November

 This is the bit of the year that i hate when what little freedom i get is drying up , one last Jumble Sale next weekend i may well buy everything just for the sake of something to look at ...lol .. The whole world has gone xmas tat im afraid . Cherie your the only person for whom this is allowed , it is your reason for living ..lol                                                                                                                                                                     Meanwhile the mucking around with my tablets is proving fun although ive managed more than 4 hours of sleep several nights  , i even got an epic 6 hours a couple of times only to wake up to someone shouting me for his morning ablutions then spending the day with him griping that the house was a tip because their were two cups in the sink .AAARRRGGHHH Its back to the winter chores of endless condensation and mould cleaning everyday .  I also keep bursting into tears for weird random reasons , yesterday i ached so much that i burst into tears because i havent had a bath in years , it would be so amazing to just sink into the heat , we have a perfectly usable disabled wet room but heigh ho , i then remembered we couldnt afford to have a bath in the house due to the water meter , plus a bath goes cold very rapidly in a unheated bathroom.  Then i got up this morning and im weepy again because he asked me what i wanted for xmas and all i could think of was somebody to cook for me and just do a days chores which got me ...Bloody silly cow                                                                                                                                           Two weeks and i change my  medication again ...i can see this is going to be a fun xmas 

Never

 Yesterday i ventured into the depths of Lincoln , just needed a bit of bulk stuff and to get the things  missing from the fortnightly Morrisons order.  Well thats me not going back this year it was dreadful , every shop packed with coughing christmas heads , very few masks in sight , certainlly not a bit of social distancing anywhere , Covid must be over. hand sanitiser is a thing of the past its all either empty or hidden away in the depths somewhere. Theyve revamped B&N so theres now no frozen section just an aisle of tins and booze and a couple of chilled freezers , i did at least find some large yellow sticker pizzas for a £1 so that will keep the menfolk happy , theyre not in the shape of a xmas tree maybe thats why they are cheap ? It got to the stage i was ready to just chuck my basket and walk out, the shop had ground to a halt with just two tills . They have signs everywhere asking for staff , but theyre known for being a dreadful employer locally so im not surprised , Now the freezer shop has gone i cant see a reason to go back again .                                                                                                                                               Managed to get round Lidl and get a trolley full of bottled water that should last well into January and a few bits like a couple of packs of cooking bacon that can be split down for the freezer .     

  Its got to be bad when Farmfoods is a little haven of sanity on its own little carpark amid all the student housing , its huge and it wasnt busy at all . Other half however had given me a whole list of crap foodstuffs he required , Chinese Ribs , turkey Kievs , spicy god knows what and greasy god knows what basically it has filled the freezer with stuff i cant eat . Though it will cheer son up i managed to get apple juice which for some reason there appears to be a local famine of . Sometimes i think that the huge freezer contains only oven chips and frozen veg for me...lol

Then the purpose of the visit to Morrisons , they to have undergone a revamp , now Morrisons has always been where your mum and granny shopped , you park dad in the cafe  with a cup of tea and do your shopping . Other half had his heart set on his annual morrisons xmas dinner with a mug of tea its been advertised everywhere . the cafe looked curiously empty but there was a big queue , so i parked himself and joined it , i thought there was something odd when there was nothing i could drink, just overpriced bottled water, the drinks machines had gone all they had was overpriced slushies milkshakes and fresh orange.  They had now got a Barista bar just beyond the till with a huge queue again, with loads of baffled pensioners  and a very irate girl doing the serving ...errr most pensioners want a cup of tea or a coffee not a god knows what in a cup with half a cup of nasty coffee under it .  I finally got to the till to order his xmas dinner and shes doing the whole i cant understand you youre wearing a mask and the steam is coming out of my ears by now .  Sorry we havent got any of the xmas menu ...ffs  would we like half a breakfast because they have run out of most things . I just turned around and walked away , to get a right royal rollicking from himself who thought it was all my fault .  So i parked him back in the car and had to go do my last bit of shopping that was missed off the order this weekend , i didnt get any of my meat or veg this week .  They have installed a whole row of little kiosks selling hot food , none of which i would be interested in.  The meat section has shrunk but i got what i needed and some packs of yellow sticker mince . Got to the tills and theyd been revamped as well its nearly all self service now there were just 2 real tills with a girl trying to force you to use them , those of us queuing were blocking the aisles so she was a tad stressed , having a basket i was a prime target , but i had all yellow sticker items so no point even trying the self serve it just doesnt get it .  I do think the world is trying to do away with us oldies   

Busy

 Lifes always throwing you curveballs , daughter has been a tad poorly with Covid somewhat baffled as shes classed as vulnerable as shes currently on chemo , doesnt go out and works from home , suspected it was a gift from grandson who has had man flu for a few days but didnt test positive, but hed been here with us and we are all fine.  Shes over the worst of it but still seems pretty grim , she only has 80% lung function on a good day so it may be a while , good old 111 wanted her to go to hospital  but she wasnt having it and got her mate whos a nurse practioner to pop round in her hazmat gear and have a listen to her chest . She couldnt have the jabs because of her autoimmune problems . So she did say well at least thats my immunity now boosted up . I was doing nursy from home online nagging her to stay upright and keep walking a bit if you can , loads of fluids and gargle with that infamous concoction of Lemsip and whisky. Kids even adult ones are always a worry .  On the other end of Covid OH keeps getting emails from the doctor to book his booster , but on ringing theres no spaces , it would seem the third jab is being rationed out to GPS in this area , they get a llimited delivery  or nothing so even they have no idea whats going on .

Ordinary Days

 So its been a busy week , lots of hospital with himself including yet another transfusion day when i drop him at the door and then pop to Tescos , but for a change i got a phone call to say he was going to be 5 hours . So what do you do, theres not the money for fuel to go home then come back to pick him up . So i trawled around the out of town shops in uphill Lincoln for something to do , it was wonderful to not be constantly clock watching or having the scowling presence tapping his foot at how long ive been in a shop . Did i spend loads ? Well i visited the barnardos toy shop and was horrified to see they had 4 grubby barbies in a bag for £20 , they could at least have cleaned them and brushed their hair for that price .   Tons of stuff but for the most part for a couple of quid more you could have bought new .  Giant Tesco for a tiddle and cat food , its increasingly hard to find the cheap and nasty own brand tins that old cat likes but did manage to get 3 packs it was all they had . I did kill a fair bit of time wandering round in the dry looking at xmas jumpers and sparkly frocks . Then on to The Lincolnshire Hospice Shop , sadly nothing i could afford in there plus it was all fat bird on a cruise type garments . For a giggle i even visited the Sue Ryder Temple in a huge retail unit , noxiously expensive but it does do some fairly decent furniture , among which they had a glorious 1930s bedroom suite veneered birdseye maple all curves made me wish i had a bigger house and a much bigger budget lol £150 . But the one plus on my day was good old B&N they were having a garden centre sale to make load for a lorry load of xmas trees , so i blew my budget on sad looking plants , christmas roses already sprouting , loads of grey untidy pinks at 10p each , all stuff that can overwinter and be planted in the spring . which i managed to smuggle home without him noticing ..When I finally picked him up , his grumpiness knew no bounds . So what have you being doing all day? Reading my book on the industrial estate . Hed given me £3 for dinner so its a good job he didnt hear my rattling stomach after all id sooner buy plants 

Dr Google

 Now im sure youre aware that we struggle with our GPs or rather our lack of GPs , suddenly they have turned into efficient GPs they have dragged themselves up to the level of normal GPs because they are undergoing a care standards inspection at the moment . Its announced on the Surgery website asking for comments from patients , shant bother i should imagine theres some interesting stories for them already . Anyway its not the fault of the actual Drs its the company that owns the practice , its only interest is farming money out of the patients . Before Covid there were obvious problems , during Covid it has been appalling . Our GPs are very honest with you if you can actually get to see them they admit that all they can do is work to the latest directive sent by the company . 6 thousand patients 4 doctors so they have reached the maximum patients at which point they opened another surgery round the corner same set up so they can milk another 6000 patients .  Anyway we can get some very dodgy locums at times but i actually talked to a sentient one the other day , not much of a conversation as she pointed out shes allocated 2 minutes per call , my annual blood tests are appalling, i promptly pointed out that i need B12 injections to function otherwise i cant think and keep falling over and my other medications dont work properly , but they stopped testing for this about 4 years ago so therefore i was cured because they lost my notes . She actually agreed to do further blood tests whoopee . Got a call back a few days later my B12  and vitamin D are through the floor pick the tablets up at the desk . retest in a couple of months . But the biggest giggle they also sent me another version of my regular medication , this is what i was put on by the hospital but it costs 12p to much so they stopped it and gave me the cheaper version and ive struggled ever since . Im sure this is all just because of the care standards investigation being ongoing ...but i can hope this is a longer term improvement  

Political Friday

 Lets have a giggle at the latest sea of shit our Glorious Leader has created . Not content with COP97 or whatever it was ,being the biggest show of hypocrites on tour ever .  How many private planes?  How many huge motorcades . Ocean liner hotels moored on the Clyde , beggars belief really doesnt it . All the little people getting fines for putting a crisp bag in the wrong bin , meanwhile the carbon footprint of these privileged idiots blackens the world . The Boris spokesman , pointing out his plane used eco fuel and they were paying a carbon offset for using it , bugger the offset does it make it better that they will plant a sapling in Scotland so his laziness could jet home for a dinner and jolly with his mates . He couldnt keep his eyes open and appeared pissed at one stage . If they all payed an offset for this fiasco Wee Jimmy Sturgen will be ruling the Great Northern Forest in a few years . im seriously thinking of running round on my travels with a bag of conkers and acorns and sycamore keys doing my own offset everywhere i go .

Then we get to the real elephant in the room , corruption .  A minor player in the Tory scheme of look over there has been caught with his hand in the till . Half a million of money for services rendered in his pocket , blatantly bribes taken for services rendered to a corporation he was a lobbyist for . then Boris decides to do away with the standards committee that caught him and replace them with a bunch of his mates, forces all his party to vote yes for this spiffing idea and then it went very viral and the smell of burning tyres on this  u turn created its own disaster . I think the fact that the MP involved was getting a mere 30 day suspension from Parliament  over the matter is more disgusting . He has now however fallen on his sword and resigned , causing a by election . 

Now if i look into my crystal ball , i wouldnt be surprised if Glorious Leader decides to chuck a General Election into the equation , his ego being what it is . His logic could be that he is up before the ethics committee , he has been dodging them for months over his gold plated decorating scandal , At most hes looking at a 30 day suspension , which means he could spend xmas in the Caribbean. The likely hood that his local party would deselect him is virtually nil  . So back in the New Year with an even bigger majority , business as usual .  I do think that Ego is the one thing that will bring him down in the end .  Though didnt we once execute a king and turn Puritan  over corruption , or has that part of History been cancelled in schools?