Yesterday everything happened at once. First I was eating a cooked breakfast of poached egg on a toasted roll with a cup of tea (at about 10 am, you understand) when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to TBSITW and suggested she make herself a cup of tea while I finished my breakfast. No sooner was it poured but the doorbell rang again to the cleaners. However we did manage a grand blether and I saw some photos of her recent caravan holiday with partner and dog. The caravan door can be opened saloon bar style with just the bottom half closed and there were several photographs of the dog looking out of the door as though to say come back, don’t forget me (and also admiring the scenery).
The cleaners did a great job of working round us and we moved to the other end of the living room to let one of them Hoover the end we had been sitting at.
In the middle of all this a delivery from T**** arrived and TBSITW helped me put it all away.
At last there was a bit of peace and TBSITW wrapped a parcel for me as she can do this so much better than I can.
I told her about an article in Private Eye which was on a subject that I had emailed them about (involving the suspension of a Junior Doctor in the North of Scotland). Several medical blogs covered the apparent injustice of this, and for some amazing reason none of the national papers covered it. It would be nice to think that I was the instigator of the article, but no doubt others had also contacted them!
It was a bright but a chilly day – definitely October weather. I am trying to postpone starting to switch on the central heating due to the rising costs of fuel. It is also unfortunate that we have electric night store heaters. There is no gas to the premises as they are retirement flats, and gas could be rather risky. The principal benefit of gas is that you can just click it on for a while on a cold day, leaving it off when you don’t need it.
As I was sitting looking out of the window at my very small patio, I noticed a beautiful bowl holding a plant which my friend JD brought me some time back when she last visited. Over last winter I thought it would not survive, then over this summer I thought it was not going to flower but now it is in full bloom with small deep blue flowers. I think they are gentians, but I am not sure – I must ask her. It is delightful to see a late flowering plant like that. I think in the spring I shall ask TBSITW to plant it out as I suspect they are several small plants rather than one large one and it would be a pity if they were to become pot bound.
Thank you, JD, even when they were not in flower I always looked at the plant in its deep-blue bowl and thought of you.
I have another, taller plant pot, also blue, which was a gift from a good friend C. The plants she put in were annuals, but this year I replanted the pot and I can see it too as I look out of my French windows.
It is good to have these reminders of friends.
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Hello Elaine,
Hope your son is feeling better.
Didn't know about the absence of gas in retirement flats. It's a shame as gas is so controllable and can even be left ticking over all day. Not looking forward to the next couple of fuel bills ! Never mind. There is always Spring to anticipate and it's nice to close the curtains and curl up with a good book on a cold winter's night(even better with a comforting glass of somethin or in my case a few chocs! )
Yes Barbara, thank you, he is feeling better now. One of his big anxieties is losing a job he loves and probably having to sign on long term sick. He makes me proud; so many people are cheating their way into unemployment benefits and there is my son trying the opposite.
On the whole I have managed to give up on chocolate eating, but as for the odd glass.................
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