3 May
Yesterday I heard two magic words from Jan which I
hear very rarely; ‘I’m hungry’, she said. We were in the bank at the time at
around 5pm. Jan’s hospital appointment at the Hussy was around 55 minutes late,
and that was for just a 5 minute chat with a doctor. And that’s where the NHS
is wasting so much money. Jan needs a fitment to her shoes to help keep her
ankle in the right position, which means she needs to see the Appliance Office
(AO), staff. She has physio sessions but they can’t refer to the AO, she had to
see her GP. Fine … except that the GP can’t refer her directly and referred her
to the ‘lower limb clinic. (No, me neither, I hadn’t heard of them before!)
That was what yesterday’s appointment was all about. No wonder the NHS is in
such a mess. But Jan was still hungry …
Since her stroke she has had problems with swallowing,
I think I’ve mentioned that before. Well, once I heard the magic words I
thought that’s easy, the Willy White is
just around the corner so we can go there. I had to run for the loo when we
got there and Jan had got us a table and was just settling down when I arrived.
Then surprise number two hit. She pointed to cod and chips offer and said
that’s what I’ll have, so we both did so. Surprise number three was that she finished
most of her chips and three-quarters of her fish, which was rather large. The
surprise was that she actually ate so much; normally she has quite a small
appetite, so it was good to see her eating so much.
Since we moved into our flat, we have been aware that
man in the flat above us is a bit of a problem neighbour. However, it’s not
been all that much hassle to us directly but the lass opposite him has been
really frightened of him and his visitors. The problem is simply due to him
being a drug dealer, and a major one at that too. We have been out most of this
week and we missed the police raid on the flat on Wednesday. He was arrested
and a large black bag was carried out full of something, probably drugs. It
looks like he will be back in jail at some time in the future.
Well, the council has had enough of him and he has to
either hand in the keys voluntarily, or they will evict him. They have started
the procedure to do so. We don’t know which way he will go but what it does mean
is that the council will no longer have a legal duty to rehouse him. I have
little sympathy for him; after all, he has had enough warnings about it.
Now, seeing it Saturday, it’s time for our weekly look
at past events. Today we go back 1495, the year that Christopher Columbus
discovered Jamaica. The whole idea of his voyage of course to find a shorter
route to east and its lucrative spices trades. At that time of course, he
wouldn’t have realised just how much a find he had come across.
So for today’s photo then I offer …
A wispy cloud
formation a couple of days ago.
And for today’s funny …
Q. What
did the police man say to the midget that filed a complaint that someone picked
his pocket and stole his wallet?
A. I can’t believe someone would stoop so low.
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