27 December
That’s it then; it’s all over for another year. That
tickly cough I had went on to become a full dose of flu, and I’m still not
fully over it. On the 23rd I made the comment about things becoming
a tradition, well, I think I’ve set another by having flu/head cold over the
Christmas New year period. I hope it doesn’t happen again next year.
Our Christmas chicken is sat in the fridge waiting to
be sorted out. I did at least manage to get it cooked on the 25th
but that’s as far as we got. Now I need to get it portioned up and back in the
freezer until we are ready for it. We were expecting our son Tom over for
dinner but he has unexpectedly now been able to come over. We’re pleased that
we decided that we would have the large chicken we had in the freezer and not
go out and buy something different.
Have you seen the news again today? We’ve had a couple
of inches of snow and parts of the country have come to stand still yet again.
What is it with us Brits that we can’t manage to do anything when theirs a
light dusting of snow? I took some rubbish out to the bin last night and saw it
was snowing, ten minutes later it was raining. This morning there’s no sign of
any snow. How we would manage in Canada at this time of year I just don’t know.
The issue of bone marrow donations has come up again
after a young Asian boy is getting over leukaemia after getting a donation for
another Asian person. The push by the boy’s parents have increased the number
of Asian donors by ‘tenfold’, according to the BBC. There is a national shortage
of such donors right now, no matter what background is involved. But did you
know that there is an upper age limit for such donors? No? Well, there is and
it’s set at 30 years of age.
Jan and I once tried to give blood but we were both
turned down, Jan because she had once had jaundice as a child and me, because I
was beta-blockers at the time. This seems odd to me considering what happened
in two recent case of kidney transplants where the donors had a serious
underline condition. We were both interested in being checked for suitability for
bone marrow donation when a friend of ours had leukaemia, and yes, we were
turned down because of our age, and also in my case because of my cardiac and
diabetes problems. So some note is taken then of donors health.
Seeing its Saturday, it’s history day and today we
look back to 1832 and HMS Beagle leaving Plymouth for its voyage of discovery.
On board was Charles Darwin who learned enough to on the voyage to come up with
his divisive theory of evolution, a theory that is still as divisive today as
when it was first published. A lot of sensitive toes were trodden on at the
time, along with a more than a few rice bowls over turned!
Today’s photo …
A Spanish fire hydrant
Today’s funny …
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