Smells, one-way street and moves

5 June 2012

Far too busy yesterday to be able to sit and write, so apologies for that.  I shall be busy again today as well but I have decided to have a few minutes to do this first.  We have bright sun shine right now in Dorktown ... so the BEEB has got it wrong yet again!

Jan is doing fine so far although she is having to have a CT scan done today and it being put on an IV drip for fluids.  Her tummy is very swollen but it has gone down slightly today.  I'll be happy when she is home now.  This is a very large house, far too large for just us two but without Jan being her it's empty.  She fills it with laughter and joy and I miss her being here.

This latest health scare with Jan has decided where we move to.  We will be moving but a lot sooner than originally planned.  Both of us are struggling with the stairs now and it will be worse for Jan when she finally does get home.  So I called in to see the Council about moving into ground floor accommodation.  I had already seen them about this some time ago and they still had me registered for it.  So when I got home I logged on to the website and expressed interest in four properties, all on the ground floor.  Tomorrow at 11am I have an estate agent calling to do a valuation of the house.  We can then sell it and put the money in mother's bank and it will pay for her care fees.  It is her money anyway and she may as well get some benefit from it.  So yes, we will be staying on here in Dorktown.  Now my writing will concentrate in and around the town.

Last year sometime they changed the road priorities on Norman Avenue, Bracebridge Street and Marlborough Road.  Now all three are one way road with Bracebridge Street being the only one giving access off Queens Road.  The recycling truck has just begun going up there.  A ambulance on blues and twos has needed to get up there to get access to one of the other streets ... but can't get because of the truck in the way.  Sounds bad doesn't it?  But there's always another way around these things.  Why didn't the ambulance driver go along Edward Street to get to the other street?  OK, so the ambulance driver might not have known that the recycling truck was on the street, but Edwards Street is a lot wider than the other three with access off there to the top ends of the other three streets.

Today's photo then is of Bracebridge Street ... 

as you can see, now it's one way there's no extra room at all. 

And here's a cracker ...

A man and his wife were driving home one very cold night when the wife asked her husband to stop the car. There was a baby skunk lying at the side of the road, and she got out to see if it was still alive.
It was, and she said to her husband, "It's nearly frozen to death. Can we take it with us, get it warm, and let it go in the morning?"
He says, "OK, get in the car with it."
"Where shall I put it to get it warm?"
He says, "Put it in between your legs. It's nice and warm there."
"But what about the smell?"
"Just hold it's nose."
The man is expected to recover soon.