Second thing was to give my feet and lower legs a really good wash. I didn’t cover them in vaseline cream though because the nurse is coming round today to do that for me.<\/p>\n
Third thing was to have a chat on the internet to Liz. We haven’t chatted for a while, which is a shame. She sent me a recipe that she’ll be using for her hot cross buns, in the hope that it might work for me rather better than the one that I have.<\/p>\n
However, it’s not the recipe, as we now. My issue is making the dough rise, and I’d give all that I own, and much more besides, to be able to make it rise properly like it ought.<\/p>\n
The nurse came round at 08:45. So 08:45 it is every day including Sunday. Bang goes my usual lie-in. Still, I suppose that I ought to be keeping some kind of normal hours somehow – come and live in the civilised World.<\/p>\n When I lived with Laurence I didn’t have much of a Sunday lie in. After a while I’d hear from the kitchen "go and wake up Eric"<\/em><\/strong> and then a few seconds later several stone of child would leap on top of me, and that would be that. I loved it really.<\/p>\n So the nurse has rubbed ointment on my feet, put plasters on the worst places, and then wound these elasticated puttee things around my lover legs. <\/p>\n My legs now look like Bibendum<\/em>, the Michelin Man and I can’t put on my shoes over the top. That means no going out for a while, as long as this prescription lasts. <\/p>\n So instead of sending off my LeClerc order on Monday, I’ll send it off tomorrow and order my mushrooms on line. That was something else that I needed to do – to bring my order up-to-date and make sure that I’ve missed nothing. I probably have, but it’s too late once I’ve sent it off.<\/p>\n After my coffee and flapjack (which was an absolute and total success) I sat down with a radio programme. <\/p>\n There are several where I’ve dictated the text but not edited it so I did one of those today. It’s all finished now and mostly assembled. The last track has been chosen and remixed and the text written I just need a quite hour or so to dictate it and everything else that needs dictating.<\/p>\n However, quiet hours are practically unknown around here anywhere near where I am.<\/p>\n The cleaner came round during the afternoon. The nurse had written out a prescription for stuff that she needs so my cleaner will sally forth tomorrow and arrange everything. <\/p>\n While she was here we went through the medicines, pills and tablets that I have, made a note of where I’m likely to run out in the very near future, and she’ll organise that tomorrow too while she’s down there in town<\/p>\n After my hot chocolate I even found time to carry on with a project that was side-lined a few weeks ago – namely, to review my blog entries for the period when I was in Canada in October 2022.<\/p>\n The details of my mega train trip ARE NOW ON-LINE<\/a>. It’s not actually the definitive version as it needs poof-reading, spel-checking, the tpying reviewed and the all-round plan Had I not had an unexpected … errr … relax, it might have been finished, but as it is, it’ll give you an idea of what I had to suffer.<\/p>\n There’s no doubt at all that Canada’s rail network, such as is still left, is nothing but a shambolic mess. And “shambolic” meaning that half of it is a sham and the rest of it is … errr … everything else. <\/p>\n Tea was a nice lot of steamed veg with these vegan meatballs in a cheese sauce. And it was delicious as usual. This cheese sauce that I make, a simple bechamel with a handful of grated vegan cheese, tarragon, chives and freshly ground black pepper in it, is really nice. <\/p>\n So am I going to watch a film now and crash out, or shall I just go to bed? I’m at the stage where my body is telling me one thing but my mind is telling me something else.<\/p>\n The end result will inevitably be the same – that I’ll fall asleep while I’m doing it.<\/p>\n So here’s hoping that my dreams come back. These days, they are the only excitement that I have. Like the time that I dreamed that I was eating a giant marshmallow, and then next morning had to buy a new pillow.<\/p>\n But thinking about all of these quotes from LORD OF THE RINGS<\/a>
\n"Will you be coming round at this time every day?"<\/em><\/strong> I asked
\n"Yes, if that’s OK for you"<\/em><\/strong> she replied
\n"What choice do I have?"<\/em><\/strong>
\n"Well, none really"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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