7 October
A
decision is made and later on this afternoon I shall be taking myself off the
insurance for our car. I shall then be returning my driving license to DVLA.
It’s something I would need to do anyway if I am diagnosed with Parkinson’s but
from early this year I haven’t really felt all that safe while I’ve been
driving, even more so when Jan hasn’t been with me to take over. Not only that,
I don’t enjoy driving as much as I used to. Top and bottom, if I was keep at
it, it would just stubbiness on my part.
Anyway,
first bit is done and I am no longer insured to drive our car; and der yer know
wot? I don’t feel upset by it, I actually feel relieved. Not step is
surrendering my license, and for that I have printed out the form from DVLA and
we will get it in the post tomorrow when we go out. Yes, I do feel better for
having made the choice and getting on with it.
Something
else has also come to us making another decision; this time it’s about the new
kitchen we are due to have installed. You see, there is no room in our small
one bedroomed flat to store all the items in our current kitchen. Like most
folks, we have a washing machine, a tumble dryer, a small chest freezer, the
cooker of course, and a nucer. We also have nine units, four of which we have
to take down and keep safe until the job is done.
All of
the units are full of things that we tend to use every day at some. But we are
not looking forward to trying to live with workers coming in and out, hammering
and banging and whatever for the three weeks the job will take. We have already
lived with that when we had a new kitchen and bathroom fitted in our house in
Bracebridge Street. At least then we could remain in the front room and let the
guys get on and do what needs doing. The only place we can go hide in here is
the bedroom, but that is already full of stuff.
So what
we are looking to ask is if we could cancel having the job done. Our current
kitchen is old and dated but works fine for us. At the best of times I don’t
like noise in a small place, and when they start here it will be horrendous.
Not only that, I tend to get very irritable very quickly these days and it
doesn’t take much to bring it on. The noise in here is likely to bring it on
even more quickly. But the main reason is that we are just not up to moving
things about like that now. For all of these reason we are not really up to
having the job done. We are hoping the council will play ball with us now.
On Monday
I began typing up Arathusia, and it’s
changing as I do so. I’ve not deleted anything, but I have added a few things
and changed a good few others. So this longhand version really is a first
draft. Later today I shall get on and do some more. The novel I am nearly ready
to release has been offered to a friend of mine, Barbara who knows someone who
was in the RN, and she is going to ask if he could have a read through and give
me any pointers or correct any clangers I may have dropped. I’m just waiting
for Barbara to get back in touch and let me know.
Today’s
photo …
An old guy having a fag, Coventry.
Today’s
funny …
In an unprecedented display of quick
thinking, local second graders Terrance McKinley and Jason Lawrence stopped an
armed robbery last Saturday, October 31st. The young boys, who wore police
officer costumes for Halloween, went Trick or Treating with Mrs. McKinley at Z
& Z corner market. When they entered the store, they saw a masked man at
the counter and brandished their firearms. Terrance screamed, "Halt, in
the name of the law!" The offender dropped his gun and put his hands in
the air long enough for the cashier in attendance to restrain the criminal.
When interviewed, Terrance said simply: "I thought we were playing cops
and robbers."
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